Voldemort comments on On the unpopularity of cryonics: life sucks, but at least then you die - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 01 August 2011 02:48:32PM *  18 points [-]

LW has a few role-playing characters identifiable by usernames, while others don't appear to be playing such games and don't use speaking usernames. So "Voldemort" is likely a fictional persona tailored to the name, rather than a handle chosen to describe a real person's character.

Comment author: Voldemort 01 August 2011 08:49:59PM *  8 points [-]

Correct, though I prefer to think of it as using another man's head to run a viable enough version of me so that I may participate in the rationalist discourse here.