jaimeastorga2000 comments on The Sword of Good - Less Wrong

85 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 03 September 2009 12:53AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 07 January 2012 07:36:37AM 2 points [-]

Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but is the opening line just a framing device for a short story with abrupt transitions, or does it mean that this is an actual draft of a book that won't be finished for whatever reason?

Comment author: Anubhav 07 January 2012 08:05:27AM 6 points [-]

I'd say it means "This thing is more of a story outline than a story, but I can't be bothered to write the book it'd take to tell the whole story." If you'd categorise that as a 'draft'.... well, go ahead.

Comment author: MBlume 08 January 2012 06:51:15AM 5 points [-]

I think it's kind of a "have your cake and eat it too" way to transform the latter into the former.