NihilCredo comments on The danger of living a story - Singularity Tropes - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Yvain 15 November 2010 10:37:15PM 15 points [-]

Anything can be mapped to tropes, about the same way anything can be mapped to one or another prophecy of Nostradamus if you try hard enough. Aside from that it is possible to map the Singularity to tropes, what evidence is there that this is actually happening?

Comment author: NihilCredo 15 November 2010 11:24:09PM *  14 points [-]

Five months ago, someone asked the question "What kind of evidence would convince you that you were in a story?". Will Newsome answered:

If something totally crazy seemed like it was about to happen and the world was at stake, like a technological singularity was about to occur or something, and I was called to work for the team of great minds that were trying their hardest to stop the destruction of the entire universe, dropping out of high school in the process, and meeting a beautiful girl who had been living literally a few houses down from me for the last 4 years without my knowing about it, who just so happened to be doing an essay on transhumanism for her English class and would just love to interview someone who was doing work for the Singularity Institute.

Oh wait...

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