Hansenista comments on Beyond the Reach of God, Abridged for Spoken Word - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Hansenista 06 December 2011 11:18:40PM 0 points [-]

I think removing it was a fine call. It is a nice paragraph, of course, but as you said, the entire thing is nicely written. And the next paragraph:

God would prevent it from ever actually happening, of course. At the very least, he’d visit some shade of gloom in Khan's heart. But in the mathematical answer to the question “What if?”, there is no God in the axioms.

conveys the same idea well enough.

Comment author: Raemon 06 December 2011 11:24:18PM 2 points [-]

If I were adding in the torture paragraph, it'd probably actually replace the "shade of gloom" paragraph. I think they end up closely stacked against each other - if you're saving the three lines from "gloom" then the slight length of "torture" isn't too bad. Then it's just "which is more powerful," which I'm still mulling over.

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