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

23 Post author: patrissimo 14 November 2010 10:39PM

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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: JoshuaZ 16 November 2010 01:11:31AM 6 points [-]

While I was deeply amused the first time you wrote that, I'm not sure that that is evidence of everything being mappable to tropes so much as how much common tropes are informed and shaped by actual history.