rkyeun comments on Greg Egan disses stand-ins for Overcoming Bias, SIAI in new book - Less Wrong

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Comment author: garethrees 10 January 2011 07:36:37PM 2 points [-]

It's hardly fair to call EY Egan's 'biggest fan'

I based this description on Yudkowsky's comments here, where he says of Permutation City, "This is simply the best science-fiction book ever written [...] It is, in short, my all-time favorite."

Comment author: rkyeun 04 September 2013 08:26:02PM 2 points [-]

That makes Egan the thing Yudkowsky is the biggest fan of. It does not make Yudkowsky to be Egan's biggest fan.

Comment author: garethrees 14 September 2013 06:52:38PM 4 points [-]

"Biggest fan" here is hyperbole for "a very big fan".