Luke_A_Somers comments on Fifty Shades of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 25 July 2014 02:43:51PM 4 points [-]

The goat with a thousand bunny rabbit young may itself be an idiot but the behavior of the bunnies constitutes a hive intelligence that has refined tastes that extend to counterfactual television, in which they view what we call real life, and life on Earth will be ended when they change the channel?

Comment author: Algernoq 26 July 2014 03:50:41AM 2 points [-]

Deep beneath Mr. McGregor's radish garden, a Great Old One sleeps fitfully, feeding upon the psychic energies of a tortoise in a waistcoat, who, to win the forbidden love of a robotic hedgehog, has gone meta enough to faintly reflect the Old One's psychic energies. Ry'leh's infinite depths plumb but one degree of madness, and there are infinitely many more...

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 26 July 2014 08:50:46PM *  1 point [-]

You hit the three continuities, but I'm not seeing the rationalist connection. For that matter, I don't see it in mine either, except in that it's a simulationist setup, which is weirdness-exercise but not directly rationalist.