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77 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 October 2012 06:16PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 October 2012 06:21:18PM 0 points [-]

In particular, "post-utopian" is not a real term so far as I know, and I'm using it as a stand-in for literary terms that do in fact have no meaning. If you think there are none of those, Alan Sokal would like to have a word with you.

Comment author: [deleted] 02 October 2012 06:25:20PM 9 points [-]

What would he have to say? The Sokal Hoax was about social engineering, not semantics.