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Comment author: [deleted] 21 August 2011 06:07:07PM *  23 points [-]

Imagine a thousand professional philosophers would join lesswrong

Completely off topic but my ... a few hundred LWers vs. thousands of professional philosophers. That sounds like an idea for a fanfic webcomic.

"A thousand proponents of mainstream philosophy descend upon you! Our down votes will blot out the sequences!"

300/LW fanfic

Comment author: [deleted] 21 August 2011 06:10:03PM 6 points [-]

"Then we shall argue in the shade!"

Comment author: [deleted] 21 August 2011 06:29:53PM 3 points [-]

"Then we shall argue with citations!"

Comment author: lessdazed 22 August 2011 12:13:28AM *  8 points [-]

Imagine a thousand professional philosophers would join lesswrong

Imagine.

EDIT: In response to downvotes, I will explain:

Philip turned to Sparta; he sent them a message, "You are advised to submit without further delay, for if I bring my army into your land, I will destroy your farms, slay your people, and raze your city." Their laconic reply: "If". Philip and Alexander would both leave them alone.

Comment author: gjm 22 August 2011 01:58:48PM 4 points [-]

It may be of interest that the word "laconic" is exactly the right one. Laconia = Sparta (well, strictly Sparta was just one part of Laconia) and its people were famously terse.

Comment author: lessdazed 22 August 2011 02:25:49PM *  0 points [-]