Multiheaded comments on New Year's Prediction Thread (2012) - Less Wrong

20 Post author: gwern 01 January 2012 09:35AM

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Comment author: Multiheaded 08 January 2012 12:42:21PM 1 point [-]

And within a week there will be electronic old men running the world.

Comment author: gwern 08 January 2012 08:26:31PM *  6 points [-]

You know, the funny thing is, there are transhumanist themes in the drafts and deleted materials for Evangelion. For example, parsing the SEELE discussions in the EoE draft and comments by Gainaxers, one has the impression that originally the plan of Gendo and Yui was to upload humans into immortal Evas so they could colonize other worlds, the human body being too frail and short-lived for space travel! (Like many of the explanations and details, I think they were cut by Anno to focus on the psychology themes that interested him more.)

Comment author: h-H 09 January 2012 03:14:20AM 1 point [-]

I like this, source please?

Comment author: gwern 09 January 2012 03:18:14PM 2 points [-]

See http://eva.onegeek.org/pipermail/evangelion/2010-March/005990.html and for more recent info, http://www.gwern.net/otaku#eoe (search downwards for 'colonize').