David_Gerard comments on The ideas you're not ready to post - Less Wrong

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Comment author: David_Gerard 13 April 2011 02:09:51PM 2 points [-]

It would first require a usable definition of "genuinely new" not susceptible to goalpost-shifting and that is actually useful for anything.

Comment author: [deleted] 13 April 2011 09:42:48PM *  2 points [-]

That was part of the joke in Anathem. Saunt Lora's assertion had actually first been stated by Saunt X, but it also occurs in the pre-X writings of Saunt Y, and so on...