Alicorn comments on Open Thread: June 2009 - Less Wrong

4 Post author: Cyan 01 June 2009 06:46PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 04 June 2009 07:44:26PM 1 point [-]

Actually, in 3WC the Confessor is supposed to be strictly charged with sedating people who depart the bounds of sanity. He goes outside this bound, which is completely against all the rules, and afterward he can no longer be called a Confessor.

Comment author: Alicorn 04 June 2009 07:55:23PM 2 points [-]

I don't know about the rest of the audience, but I'd really appreciate a worldbuilding writeup, or maybe even just a glossary, explaining the cultural/technological backdrop of 3WC in more detail than the story provides.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 04 June 2009 08:21:57PM 2 points [-]

There are some worlds for which I have devised huge cultural, technological, and historical backdrops but this is not one of them.