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TheOtherDave comments on Limitless, a Nootropics-Centered Movie - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 17 March 2011 03:05:30PM 1 point [-]

Not that it helps alleviate your confusion, but I'll note that he's borrowing the term from Vernor Vinge in Fire Upon The Deep, where the "any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from a god" principle is applied liberally.