saturn comments on Positive Thinking - Less Wrong

20 Post author: Swimmer963 07 March 2011 01:03AM

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Comment author: saturn 07 March 2011 04:10:04AM 6 points [-]

If you read the original post by Eliezer, he uses the "sanity waterline" concept only as a loose metaphor. But since then the phrase itself seems to have taken on a life of its own.

Comment author: Swimmer963 07 March 2011 02:51:48PM 0 points [-]

Agreed. I used it partly in jest, to try and show that it WAS an unrealistic assumption.