Luke_A_Somers comments on The Futility of Emergence - Less Wrong

36 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 26 August 2007 10:10PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 August 2007 03:58:08AM 5 points [-]

Creeping into his soul, he felt the first faint tinges of despair.

After all these posts on how the strength of an idea is what it excludes, forbids, prohibits, people are still citing positive examples as proof of the power of emergence? Tell me what it isn't!

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 09 May 2012 03:58:01PM 0 points [-]

I don't understand this comment.

Two posters had offered only positive examples. Five had offered at least one negative example in contrast to a positive example.