arundelo comments on Tell Your Rationalist Origin Story - Less Wrong

30 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 25 February 2009 05:16PM

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Comment author: arundelo 10 September 2012 09:19:10AM *  1 point [-]

Eliezer got some early influence from the General Semantics-inspired Null-A books by A.E. van Vogt.

(I'm leaving two versions of this comment in different threads because buybuydandavis also asked about Korzybski and LW.)

Edit: I realized that this comment doesn't make much sense as a direct reply to yours. Consider it an addendum to Mitchell_Porter's comment.