Nornagest comments on Existential Risk - Less Wrong

28 Post author: lukeprog 15 November 2011 02:23PM

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Comment author: Gedusa 15 November 2011 04:04:01PM 22 points [-]

Whilst I really, really like the last picture - it seems a little odd to include it in the article.

Isn't this meant to seem like a hard-nosed introduction to non-transhumanist/sci-fi people? And doesn't the picture sort of act against that - by being slightly sci-fi and weird?

Comment author: Nornagest 15 November 2011 06:51:13PM *  9 points [-]

Actually, both that and the Earth image at the beginning of the article seem a little out of place. At least the latter would fit well into a print article (where you can devote half a page or a page to thematic images and still have plenty of text for your eyes to seek to), but online it forces scrolling on mid-sized windows before you can read comfortably. I think it'd read more smoothly if it was smaller, along the lines of the header images in "Philosophy by Humans" or (as an extreme on the high end) "The Cognitive Science of Rationality".