Decius comments on Narrative, self-image, and self-communication - Less Wrong

32 Post author: Academian 19 December 2012 09:42AM

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Comment author: Decius 20 December 2012 03:56:55PM 3 points [-]

Preferably without obfuscating the point nearly as much as my example.

Comment author: [deleted] 20 December 2012 04:24:35PM 6 points [-]

Shakka...when the walls fell.

Comment author: MaoShan 21 December 2012 03:51:09AM 2 points [-]

Kohath! His eyes wide open!

Comment author: Decius 22 December 2012 03:42:37AM 0 points [-]

Beowulf and Grendel! But which is which?

Comment author: IlyaShpitser 22 December 2012 05:32:56AM 11 points [-]

In a universe not far from here, lesswrong died by becoming a slightly more mathematical tvtropes.org.

Comment author: Decius 22 December 2012 07:44:48AM 7 points [-]

In many universes adjacent to that one, lesswrong became popular beyond their wildest expectation and a dedicated few anthropology majors planted the seeds of their ideas within popular and addictive memes, spreading rationality and straw rationality across the internet to be implanted across a full niche of a subculture.