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This is pointless armchair quarterbacking, and it's counterproductive to spread this sort of thinking.

If you read the presentation from the Mapuche conflict team, you might come away appreciating the effort and recommendations. You'll note plenty of humility and humbling in the takeaway notes from the project. And, you'll also note there were Mapuche labeled as 'willing to talk' right in the deck.

Especially here at HackerNews, I propose we generally stay positive on the idea of leaning in to solving difficult problems, and getting working on them rapidly. I believe it's better for the world.



Getting to work rapidly is guaranteed to be the wrong thing to do with any difficult problem.

The book "How Big Things Get Done" elaborates on this and gives examples of how to do it right.

1. https://www.amazon.com/How-Big-Things-Get-Done/dp/0593239512




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