Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Think Like a Supervillain - Less Wrong

26 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 20 February 2013 08:34AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 February 2013 07:38:28AM 18 points [-]

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VillainsActHeroesReact

I so adore tropes, they give me something to subvert.

"According to all the stories, this ordinary world is what the extraordinary people try to protect. If you read a comic book about superheroes, it would be about superheroes defending all those everyday lives. The superheroes wouldn't be trying to cure AIDS or feed starving children in Africa or otherwise change the world. We have scientists for that sort of thing. No, a superhero is someone who defends that ordinary, everyday life from the forces that try to change it. Even if those stories come from our imagination, still, those are the people we praise above all others."

See also: HPMOR