Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Rationality quotes: June 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 June 2010 10:17:13AM 4 points [-]

Your original quote asserts a definite fate, not a fate which would occur if some particular technology were to remain uninvented.

That is not dead which can eternal lie
And with strange aeons even death may die

-- H. P. Lovecraft

Comment author: RichardKennaway 02 June 2010 10:22:07AM * 3 points [-]

Piet Hein is definitely dead.

Comment author: gwern 02 June 2010 05:59:49PM 2 points [-]

"Everybody has got to die, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case."

--author William Saroyan, letter written to his survivors

Comment author: cousin_it 02 June 2010 10:20:39AM * 1 point [-]

Holy shit, this the first time ever that I realized the relationship between this Lovecraft quote and classic OB/LW topics. Scary.

Comment author: dclayh 02 June 2010 08:05:42PM 1 point [-]

You mean you missed it back in February? :)