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Trevor_Blake comments on Orwell and fictional evidence for dictatorship stability - Less Wrong Discussion

16 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 24 May 2013 12:19PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 24 May 2013 02:04:05PM 1 point [-]

I am glad to see you write that forever = forever. The more I learned about the implications of absolute terms the less I came to use them.

There is no evidence that anything like the world he envisaged could (or will) happen.

The future won't be like the past

Which is it? The past limits the future or the past does not limit the future?

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 27 May 2013 05:10:27PM 0 points [-]

Which is it? The past limits the future or the past does not limit the future?

The past provides evidence as to what the future will be like, but this is relatively weak evidence (though sometimes it might be the only evidence).

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