wedrifid comments on Thoughts on the Singularity Institute (SI) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 26 May 2012 02:24:14AM 43 points [-]

It's Luke you should have fallen in love with, since he is the one turning things around.

On the other hand I can count with one hand the number of established organisations I know of that would be sociologically capable of ceding power, status and control to Luke the way SingInst did. They took an untrained intern with essentially zero external status from past achievements and affiliations and basically decided to let him run the show (at least in terms of publicly visible initiatives). It is clearly the right thing for SingInst to do and admittedly Luke is very tall and has good hair which generally gives a boost when it comes to such selections - but still, making the appointment goes fundamentally against normal human behavior.

(Where I say "count with one hand" I am not including the use of any digits thereupon. I mean one.)

Comment author: Matt_Simpson 19 July 2012 07:05:00PM 7 points [-]

...and admittedly Luke is very tall and has good hair which generally gives a boost when it comes to such selections...

It doesn't matter that I completely understand why this phrase was included, I still found it hilarious in a network sitcom sort of way.