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20 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 December 2007 03:46AM

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Comment author: komponisto 07 November 2009 04:42:24AM *  2 points [-]

One of my less treasured memories is of a State of the Union address, or possibly a presidential inauguration, at which a Nobel Laureate got up and read

It can't have been a State of the Union address, since no one speaks at those except the President(*). On the other hand, Nobel Laureates reading poetry is exactly the kind of thing that happens at presidential inaugurations.

( * )And this was before Obama(**) and after T. Roosevelt, so the President wouldn't have been a Nobel Laureate himself .

(**)The LW spellchecker does not recognize this word (!)

Comment author: MBlume 07 November 2009 04:47:16AM 1 point [-]

(!)

should you really be that surprised by this?

Comment author: Jack 07 November 2009 05:56:20AM 4 points [-]

I wish the exclamation point had been its own footnote.

Comment author: orthonormal 06 January 2010 06:56:27AM 5 points [-]

David Foster Wallace, we miss you.