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JQuinton comments on In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war continued by other means - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: JQuinton 21 October 2014 08:34:14PM 2 points [-]

I don't think PvE is necessarily scientific knowledge. It's more like experience (to expound on the analogy further). While we're currently in one environment -- Earth -- it might be possible for us to explore other environments in the future. But, like the analogy proposes, it would take an enormous amount of manhours/manpower to actually reach this new content.