sediment comments on A Parable of Elites and Takeoffs - Less Wrong

23 Post author: gwern 30 June 2014 11:04PM

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Comment author: sediment 02 July 2014 09:51:45PM 1 point [-]

I'm not sure whether you intended this, but I suppose "70 years from now" does mean "70 years ago", in an extremely literal, unidiomatic sense of "from".

Comment author: gwern 03 July 2014 05:55:40PM 1 point [-]

That was actually pointed out to me after I finished the draft, but I decided to leave it be. I think it sounds better, and the unintentional double-meaning is nice.