Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Universal Fire - Less Wrong

63 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 April 2007 09:15PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 28 April 2007 06:56:24AM 9 points [-]

Vassar, IIRC, Vinge did indeed comment somewhere that "A Fire Upon the Deep" was intended as deliberate chutzpah - the problem of keeping the Transcendents out of the Beyonders' hair was unsolvable, so he simply imposed it as a complete magical plot device and went on from there.

And, everyone: I was trying to say something about the real universe, not about literature. Things are different here.