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garethrees comments on Greg Egan disses stand-ins for Overcoming Bias, SIAI in new book - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: garethrees 10 January 2011 07:32:56PM 4 points [-]

I don't see how those novels could have been an inspiration?

Yudkowsky describes Egan's work as an important influence in Creating Friendly AI, where he comments that a quote from Diaspora "affected my entire train of thought about the Singularity".

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 January 2011 09:39:02PM 17 points [-]

Though it's worth noting that this was a "That shouldn't happen" quote and not a "What a good idea" quote.

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