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Comment author: arundelo 10 September 2012 09:19:14AM 2 points [-]

Eliezer got some early influence from the General Semantics-inspired Null-A books by A.E. van Vogt.

(I'm leaving two versions of this comment in different threads because DeeElf also asked about Korzybski and LW.)

Comment author: buybuydandavis 10 September 2012 05:57:24PM 4 points [-]

Thank you for the link to the other discussion. I had been assuming more familiarity Korzybski than seems to be the case.