TobyBartels comments on Rationality Quotes June 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TobyBartels 19 June 2013 04:58:09AM *  8 points [-]

I just watched Oz the Great and Powerful, the big-budget fanfic prequel film to The Wizard of Oz. Hardly a rationalist movie, but there was some nice boosting of science and technology where I didn't expect it. So here's the quotation:

I’m not that kind of wizard. Where I come from there aren’t any real wizards, except one, Thomas Edison. He could look into the future and make it real. […] That's the kind of wizard I want to be.

(There's more, but this is all that I could get out of the Internet and my memory.)

Comment author: Nornagest 19 June 2013 05:04:11AM *  0 points [-]

I haven't seen the movie, but that sounds awfully familiar. It doesn't sound consistent with the Oz books or any of the big-name fanfic out there (Wicked, etc.), but I wonder if it might have shown up in some similar context.