Decius comments on Open Thread, June 2-15, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Decius 07 June 2013 05:26:14PM 0 points [-]

What would you accept as sufficient evidence of quality?

Comment author: [deleted] 07 June 2013 05:31:34PM 3 points [-]

A Hugo Award, I presume. </snark>

Comment author: gwern 07 June 2013 05:37:04PM 3 points [-]

Or a Nebula, Locus, or World Fantasy Award. I'd also accept a Nobel or Man Booker (for magical realism).

Comment author: Decius 07 June 2013 11:34:57PM 0 points [-]

Which one do you want? I can have a crack team of ninja liberate it from the current owner and deliver it to you, but that will cost significantly more than your soul.

Comment author: gwern 08 June 2013 02:24:22AM 1 point [-]

but that will cost significantly more than your soul.

Well then, I'm afraid we would be unable to reach a mutually beneficial agreement - I would be better off retaining my soul under such a sale.

Comment author: Decius 08 June 2013 02:35:27AM 1 point [-]

You could also earn or steal your own frikkin' literature award.

The typical narrative written by a winner of a high-prestige award is worth significantly more than a few btc in straight commercial value. I acknowledge that my narrative will very likely have negative commercial value (it would take more work to sell it than it would be purchased for), or I would be selling narratives and they would be too valuable to me to offer to you.

The thing is, I wouldn't offer anything based on its cash value, because I value your soul only slightly more than you do. My hope was to find something that you would prefer to btc as the price of your soul. A narrative set to music might be particularly appropriate, since it would allow you to say that you sold you soul for a song.

Comment author: gwern 08 June 2013 02:55:17AM 0 points [-]

A narrative set to music might be particularly appropriate, since it would allow you to say that you sold you soul for a song.

While that is tempting, I am sufficiently amused that I will be able to say I sold my soul for bitcoins and - diminishing returns - selling it for a song isn't amusing enough to sell it on the cheap to you. Anyway, it would violate the terms I've already set.

Comment author: Decius 08 June 2013 07:56:00PM 0 points [-]

Fair enough. Enjoy your bitcoin.

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