NancyLebovitz comments on Rationality Quotes November 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gaffa 31 October 2011 06:41:50PM 21 points [-]

You can't make a movie and say 'It was all a big accident' - no, it has to be a conspiracy, people plotting together. Because in a story, a story is about intention. A story is not about spontaneous order or complex human institutions which are the product of human action but not of human design - no, a story is about evil people plotting together.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 01 November 2011 12:48:58PM 4 points [-]

There's a mystery novel that left me incredibly angry at the author because I was expecting an interesting complex cause tying all the murders together, but there wasn't. I'm probably a calmer person now, and for all I know, there may have been hints I was missing about what sort of story it was.

Gur Anzr bs gur Ebfr

Comment author: Solvent 02 November 2011 10:06:50AM 1 point [-]

...I think it's a sign of the times that I can read rot13 to the extent that I know what book you said. Dammit, I was going to read that book one day.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 02 November 2011 12:46:27PM 1 point [-]

Apologies. I've seen a post with a link to a rot13 page-- I'll see if I can make that work for future spoilers.

You still might want to read the book-- it had a lot of engaging detail and characters.. That's why I was so angry at not getting the sort of ending I wanted.

Comment author: Solvent 04 November 2011 10:02:48AM 0 points [-]

It probably isn't a common enough affliction to have to worry about.

But yeah, I'll pick the book up some time.

Comment author: khafra 02 November 2011 01:07:20PM 0 points [-]

I read Sbhpnhyg'f Craqhyhz before Gur Anzr bs gur Ebfr, so the nature of the ending was no surprise to me; but I still enjoyed the book.