Rain comments on Epistle to the New York Less Wrongians - Less Wrong

90 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 April 2011 09:13PM

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Comment author: David_Gerard 22 April 2011 06:04:23PM *  8 points [-]

I spent most of January 1990 (I think that was the month) reading the entire run of Astounding/Analog from 1953 to 1985. That was better than quite a lot of the extrapolations therein. Anthologies of the best modernist SF gloss over really quite a lot of the awfulness that was actually published, even in the best magazine ...

Comment author: Rain 22 April 2011 08:52:49PM 3 points [-]

Sturgeon's Law: Ninety percent of everything is crap.

Comment author: David_Gerard 22 April 2011 09:36:48PM 1 point [-]

Well, yeah. But boy did I have it brought home to me.