lukeprog 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: Dr_Manhattan 14 January 2012 12:33:33AM 3 points [-]
  • I think inspiration is important

  • Some of the sequence re-writes (I'm thinking specifically of the ones on facingsingularity web site) are better written than the originals, and there is some value in that.

Comment author: lukeprog 14 January 2012 04:47:42AM 4 points [-]

Some of the sequence re-writes (I'm thinking specifically of the ones on facingsingularity web site) are better written than the originals

Well, they're more compressed, anyway. But they only accomplish that by having the luxury of linking to dozens of Eliezer's original, more detailed and persuasive articles.