Vladimir_Nesov comments on Rationality Quotes September 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 03 September 2011 04:55:31PM 3 points [-]

I wonder what he would think of the possibility of "editing" human nature via technology, and how those changes might negate the usefulness of mythology as a set of teaching memes.

Greg Egan's short story "The Planck Dive" has an interesting take on that subject. It's about a mythologist trying to force a description of a post-Singularity scientific expedition into one of the classic mythical narratives.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 03 September 2011 05:28:39PM 1 point [-]

It's not "post-Singularity", it's normal human technology, just more advanced.

Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 04 September 2011 01:29:03AM 2 points [-]

I guess you could say that. I said "post-Singularity" because all the characters are uploads, but there aren't any AGIs and human nature isn't unrecognizably different.