MartinB comments on Christopher Hitchens and Cryonics - Less Wrong

11 Post author: James_Miller 08 August 2010 08:32PM

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Comment author: dclayh 08 August 2010 09:34:01PM *  8 points [-]

I've observed that the world's most awesome people are pretty strongly connected, graph-theoretically. I would bet that there are well fewer than six degrees between, say, Eliezer and Hitchens under the relation "good friends with".

Comment author: MartinB 09 August 2010 01:00:38AM 3 points [-]

The four horseman probably are, one of them being Randi who speaks soon the singinst conference.

Comment author: CarlShulman 09 August 2010 01:04:40AM 9 points [-]

The four horsemen are Dennett, Hitchens, Harris and Dawkins, no?

Comment author: Jonathan_Graehl 09 August 2010 04:15:01AM 2 points [-]

I always feel embarrassed for them when I hear them called that.

Comment author: ciphergoth 09 August 2010 05:31:34AM 9 points [-]

They have sort-of adopted the label. I'm thinking of the lecture at which Dennett put his hand up and started a question with "I'm Dan Dennett, one of the four horsemen of atheism, and I'd like to ask..."

Comment author: MartinB 09 August 2010 02:08:53AM 1 point [-]

Oh my, I confused them.