RichardKennaway comments on Rationality Quotes June 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 04 June 2013 12:12:47PM 2 points [-]

Possibility then appears to the self ever greater and greater, more and more things become possible, because nothing becomes actual. At last it is as if everything were possible--but this is precisely when the abyss has swallowed up the self.

Reminds me of standards processes and project proposals that produce ever more elaborate specifications that no-one gets round to implementing.