Ezekiel comments on Rationality Quotes December 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Ezekiel 30 November 2011 11:03:32PM *  20 points [-]

I had a dream that I met a girl in a dying world. [...] I knew we didn't have long together. She grabbed me and spoke a stream of numbers into my ear. Then it all went away.

I woke up. The memory of the apocalypse faded to mere fancy, but the numbers burned bright in my mind. I wrote them down immediately. They were coordinates. A place and a time, neither one too far away.

What else could I do? When the day came, I went to the spot and waited.

And?

It turns out wanting something doesn't make it real.

~ Randall Munroe, xkcd #240: Dream Girl

Comment author: RichardKennaway 30 November 2011 11:16:58PM 16 points [-]

It turns out wanting something doesn't make it real.

Except that in this case it did.

Comment author: philh 02 December 2011 01:01:51PM *  12 points [-]

What made it real was (among other things) Randall posting that comic. He wanted the meetup, and chose that method to publicise it.

Wanting something isn't sufficient: desire is a force that acts upon you, not on the universe.

Comment author: Ezekiel 30 November 2011 11:54:19PM 2 points [-]

Just reading that maxed out my GDA for fuzzies.

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