Jonathan_Graehl comments on Can the Chain Still Hold You? - Less Wrong

108 Post author: lukeprog 13 January 2012 01:28AM

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Comment author: taw 12 January 2012 08:08:04PM 11 points [-]

The part about baboons was where the post should be cut.

Too many good stories are ruined this way on lesswrong.

Comment author: Jonathan_Graehl 12 January 2012 08:12:28PM 8 points [-]

Sure, just ending on "Until they weren't." would have killed.

But "ruined" is too much. The links are useful to people who don't already know them. And there's an elephant-chain story you might like at the bottom.

Comment author: taw 13 January 2012 07:53:05PM 9 points [-]

Many of his later points about slavery, smallpox, religion etc. were extremely dubious or forced at best. It was literally painful to read that part after awesome part about baboons. And Singularity Institute self-congratulations were even worse than that.

The elephant chain story on the other hand was good.