bogdanb comments on The Hero With A Thousand Chances - Less Wrong

62 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 31 July 2009 04:25AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 17 September 2009 03:06:02AM 2 points [-]

I've heard that theory and it's so grotesquely ugly in a case like this that I just can't bring myself to go along with it.

Comment author: bogdanb 12 May 2010 11:15:34AM 6 points [-]

I also had the same reaction. I had to re-read the three sentences a couple of time to convince myself it was the hero who said them all.

The convention also seemed weird when I started reading English — my native language uses different conventions for dialogue, not involving quotes — but now I find it “non-standard” uses (like yours) confusing.

Oh, well, the author gets to pick :-)