shminux comments on Harry Yudkowsky and the Methods of Postrationality: Chapter One: Em Dashes Colons and Ellipses, Littérateurs Go Wild - Less Wrong

-7 Post author: Will_Newsome 06 July 2014 09:34AM

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Comment author: shminux 09 July 2014 11:19:41PM *  2 points [-]

You seem to confuse cause and effect. Oh wait... I must precommit to talk like a major character... But I cannot precommit unless the author writes me that way...

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 09 July 2014 11:52:53PM 5 points [-]

The author can choose to avoid characters with your state of mind, but they can't choose the decisions implied by your state of mind. You can precommit to act like a major character, in which case you won't be a minor character, but you may fail to get in the actual story.

Comment author: mwengler 10 July 2014 06:14:41AM 2 points [-]

You seem to confuse cause and effect. Oh wait... I must precommit to talk like a major character... But I cannot precommit unless the author writes me that way...

Seriously dude, who writes stuff like that? Maybe your agent can get you something else.