The Finale of the Ultimate Meta Mega Crossover

Eliezer Yudkowsky

So I'd intended this story as a bit of utterly deranged fun, but it got out of control and ended up as a deep philosophical exploration, and now those of you who care will have to wade through the insanity. I'm sorry. I just can't seem to help myself.

I know that writing crossover fanfiction is considered one of the lower levels to which an author can sink. Alas, I've always been a sucker for audacity, and I am the sort of person who couldn't resist trying to top the entire... but never mind, you can see for yourself.

Click on to read my latest story and first fanfiction, a Vernor Vinge x Greg Egan crackfic.

That sounds like something important for me to know about. Why?

The reasoning would go something like this:

FAI is, these people say, an insanely hard problem.
Insanely hard problems require insane amounts of time/dedication/effort.
The author of this has clearly spent a ridiculous amount of time reading/watching/consuming media.
You can't both spend a ridiculous amount of time consuming media/writing fanfics, & a ridiculous amount of time working on FAI.
Since I am observing the former, I can infer the absence of the latter...
If they aren't working hard on FAI, why then should I donate? (Their work is entertaining me quite a bit, yes, but I don't donate to every blog I read.)

Alternate, more fallacious version:

FAI are Serious Business.
This are not serious person.
Therefore, this are not FAI person.*

Now, as for Reddit: I fear to reread the fic to get specifics, but I remember thinking at least twice reading through it, 'isn't that a reference to an obscure in-joke or article I've only ever seen on Reddit?' Whether those were truly Reddit refs/Reddit-reading-sourced or not is almost irrelevant.

EDIT: * I hereby dub this a 'sylolgism'. Go forth and plague the people with fallacious proofs written in lolcat.

Regarding Reddit references, all that comes to mind for me is "Squirrel Girl as memetic badass", which isn't Reddit-specific.

3wedrifid17y

Is it having hobbies that you object to or that he does not devote sufficient effort to constructing a 'serious' public image? I note that the time wasted with the formalities involved in such signalling are more than enough to become well versed in science fiction.

8Vladimir_Nesov17y

It doesn't take ridiculous amount of time to consume enough media -- normal amount of entertainment time would do just fine. Over the years, little things accumulate. I've probably consumed 100 kg of cheese in the last 10 years, but that doesn't make me a cheese-swallowing python.

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