gwern comments on Rationality Quotes: February 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 05 February 2010 01:35:36AM 0 points [-]

Strange eons are many and long aeons; HPL thinks in a steady state cosmos where the universe is indefinitely old. Death will die in the Christian phrasing - the non-human menaces grow more powerful over time and their 'sleep' periods will shrink.