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shminux comments on Journal of Consciousness Studies issue on the Singularity - Less Wrong Discussion

14 Post author: lukeprog 02 March 2012 03:56PM

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Comment author: shminux 02 March 2012 08:56:50PM 2 points [-]

Tipler did some excellent work in mathematical relativity before going off the rails shortly thereafter.

Comment author: [deleted] 02 March 2012 09:26:46PM 11 points [-]

I'm very grateful to the undergraduate professor of mine that introduced me to Penrose and Tipler as a freshman. I think at that time I was on the cusp of falling into a similar failure state, and reading Shadows of the Mind and The Physics of Immortality shocked me out of what would have been a very long dogmatic slumber indeed.