ocr-fork comments on Open Thread June 2010, Part 2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ocr-fork 07 June 2010 04:49:52PM 4 points [-]

Of course. It's fiction.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 07 June 2010 04:59:23PM *  3 points [-]

What I mean is that this isn't a type of fiction that could plausibly occur in our universe. In contrast for example, there's nothing in the central premises of say Blindsight that as we know it would prevent the story from taking place. The central premise here is one that doesn't work in our universe.

Comment author: Blueberry 07 June 2010 05:06:26PM 1 point [-]

Well, it does suggest they've made recent discoveries that changed the way they understood the laws of physics, which could happen in our world.