Lumifer comments on Open thread, December 7-13, 2015 - Less Wrong

3 Post author: polymathwannabe 07 December 2015 02:47PM

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Comment author: gjm 15 December 2015 04:26:29PM 3 points [-]

Perhaps Calien takes "grow old" to mean "accumulate years and experience and memories" rather than "accumulate wear and tear and damage".

Comment author: Lumifer 15 December 2015 04:58:34PM 0 points [-]

That's called "growing wise" :-P

Comment author: Calien 16 December 2015 11:18:38AM 1 point [-]

gjm's interpretation is what I was going for. Chronological age only! (Warning: link to TVTropes) I wasn't sure how to keep the same form and still have it flow nicely.