RobinZ comments on Poll: What value extra copies? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RobinZ 22 June 2010 05:30:33PM 1 point [-]

Seconding Vladimir_Nesov's correction - for context, the original quote, in context:

I feel like grabbing hold of him and shaking the metaphysical stuffing out; instead I say evenly, "I'm asking you to help me. I don't care how experience is constructed. I don't care if time is an illusion. I don't care if nothing's real until it's five minutes old. It all adds up to normality—or it ought to. It used to. And don't tell me everyone smears a hundred times a day; everyone does not suffer hallucinations, mod failures—"

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 22 June 2010 05:38:51PM *  0 points [-]

The phrase was used in the novel multiple times, and less confusingly so on other occasions. For example:

The ordinary course of events must add up to normality.

Comment author: RobinZ 22 June 2010 06:11:04PM 0 points [-]

I apologize - I haven't read the book.