Tuxedage comments on Glenn Beck discusses the Singularity, cites SI researchers - Less Wrong
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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.
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.
I have been impressed on his understanding of Hayek. He knows his Road to Serfdom.
I thought of that too. O.o
Glenn Beck being Eliezer's Finest Apprentice .... God must be a fanfic writer.
Yes, but fanfic of what? I'd hate to learn I was living in a Lovecraft pastiche... or worse, a Lifetime Original Movie.
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.)
Here are some relevant TV Tropes.