gwern comments on Cascio in The Atlantic, more on cognitive enhancement as existential risk mitigation - Less Wrong

20 [deleted] 18 June 2009 03:09PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Sort By: Best

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: gwern 18 June 2009 08:44:55PM 0 points [-]

Hm, where's the Conrad ref? I see a God Emperor of Dune ref (Dune seems pretty popular here, I've noticed), but not that.

Comment author: Cyan 18 June 2009 08:58:38PM * 1 point [-]

It's the whited sepulchre thing; it's one of the central themes of Heart of Darkness. (Google tells me the original quote is from Matthew 23:27).

Comments (77)