Zack_M_Davis comments on Open Thread: October 2009 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: cousin_it 19 October 2009 01:13:39PM *  0 points [-]

Nope, doesn't work. Why do you think new fiction would make the corpus more optimal in any way?

Comment author: Zack_M_Davis 19 October 2009 07:16:47PM 0 points [-]

It makes the corpus more complete, if nothing else. Of course we don't want to write all possible books; that's just the useless Library of Babel. But that's physically impossible anyway; within the range that we can apprehend, I'm inclined to say that more books about more topics is better.