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linkhyrule5 comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 19, chapter 88-89 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: linkhyrule5 30 June 2013 09:43:09AM 3 points [-]

Something to note - A Singularity, of whatever kind, is generally held (citation needed) to be the point at which a pre-Singularity being can make no useful predictions about a post-Singularity being, usually due to runaway growth of intelligence.

It is very much a metaphorical "end of the world" for a pre-Singularity being, and prophecies are nothing if not metaphorical.

Comment author: Gabriel 30 June 2013 12:02:11PM 9 points [-]

Something to note - A Singularity, of whatever kind, is generally held [...]

Not around these parts.

Comment author: linkhyrule5 30 June 2013 12:43:28PM 0 points [-]

Fair enough. The Intelligence Explosion variant has the same net effect on a layperson, though: an absolutely alien world, with such strange people in it.

Comment author: ikrase 01 July 2013 12:11:15AM 1 point [-]

Ohhhh...

Quirrel is in for a very, very nasty suprise. Very good day my binary-search-for-enemies-of-the-Verresian-Empire ass.