Annoyance comments on This Failing Earth - Less Wrong

19 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 24 May 2009 04:09PM

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 26 May 2009 08:33:40AM 1 point [-]

And in this remark, you are comparing the real world to the past that is not present anymore. To understand a system, it's usually instructive to vary its properties and see what follows. If it could be worse, or better, what would it take?