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CronoDAS comments on May 2012 Media Thread - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: CronoDAS 03 May 2012 09:54:36AM *  0 points [-]

Eliezer may claim that "it is an unvarying rule of fiction that problems are solved by protagonists"

Like everything in fiction, sometimes this rule is broken. Deus Ex Machina is generally frowned upon, but it exists. And sometimes problems simply aren't solved at all, or end up being solved by people unrelated to the main plot.