robryk comments on The Strangest Thing An AI Could Tell You - Less Wrong

81 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 July 2009 02:27AM

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Comment author: Theist 15 July 2009 07:47:03PM 6 points [-]

Some of the people you believe are dead are actually alive, but no matter how hard they try to get other people to notice them, their actions are immediately forgotten and any changes caused by those actions are rationalized away.

Fabulous story idea.

Comment author: robryk 03 October 2010 07:35:12PM 6 points [-]

Actually, it was used in Terry Pratchett's ``Mort''.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 06 December 2013 09:01:19PM 0 points [-]

This seems to be one of the many examples of cross-fertilization between Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, since this is a major aspect of Gaiman's "Neverwhere".

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