wedrifid comments on The Anthropic Trilemma - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 28 September 2009 09:22:33AM *  4 points [-]

Geddes-standard? I don't understand the reference. An unflattering comparison to the biologist?

Edit: Thanks for the explaination EY. (And my expressed contempt for whoever thinks a query trying to understand the reference must be punished.)

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 28 September 2009 05:27:41PM 6 points [-]

I'm terribly sorry, but I had to delete that comment because it used the name of M-nt-f-x, which, if spoken in plain text, causes that one to appear. He Googles his name.

Here was the original comment by outlawpoet:

Marc Geddes was a participant in the SL4 list back when it was a bit more active, and kind of proverbial for degenerating into posting very incoherent abstract theory. He's basically carrying on the torch for M-nt-f-x and Achimedes Plutonium and other such celebrities of incommunicable genius.

Now please stop replying to this thread!

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