Tuxedage comments on Glenn Beck discusses the Singularity, cites SI researchers - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Tuxedage 12 June 2012 08:18:27PM *  31 points [-]

This is a surprising amount of information relevant to the Singularity that Glenn Beck is familiar with, including people like Luke, Anna, Eliezer, and Michael.

Could Glenn be part of Lesswrong? Is there a possibility that Glenn Beck has read the LW sequences?

"...smiling down from their huge piles of utility..." Oh my God.

Comment author: RobertLumley 12 June 2012 09:03:21PM 9 points [-]

Say what you will about Glenn Beck, he is a fairly well read person. It doesn't surprise me so much that he knows of these people, from what I know of him.

Comment author: Karmakaiser 13 June 2012 05:23:42AM 5 points [-]

I have been impressed on his understanding of Hayek. He knows his Road to Serfdom.

Comment author: GLaDOS 12 June 2012 08:40:05PM *  20 points [-]

"...smiling down from their huge piles of utility..."

I thought of that too. O.o

Glenn Beck being Eliezer's Finest Apprentice .... God must be a fanfic writer.

Comment author: Nornagest 13 June 2012 08:36:37AM *  2 points [-]

Yes, but fanfic of what? I'd hate to learn I was living in a Lovecraft pastiche... or worse, a Lifetime Original Movie.

Comment author: Will_Newsome 13 June 2012 08:17:15PM *  2 points [-]

Three relevant TV tropes.

(Also keep in mind that by hypothesis the author is superintelligent. You shouldn't really expect to understand anything better than a caveman would grasp the subtleties of Dostoyevsky.)

Comment author: Will_Newsome 12 June 2012 10:08:11PM 2 points [-]

God must be a fanfic writer.

Here are some relevant TV Tropes.