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eli_sennesh comments on I have just donated $10,000 to the Immortality Bus, which was the most rational decision of my life - Less Wrong Discussion

0 Post author: turchin 18 July 2015 01:13PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 19 July 2015 04:10:47AM 2 points [-]

Let me know when they stop by Massachusetts, as I want to ask them how and why they think one can put forward a positive vision for a transhuman future based on Ayn "even children with copies of evil overlords in their heads don't fall for her shit" Rand.

Comment author: CellBioGuy 19 July 2015 08:13:56AM *  5 points [-]

I managed to briefly see a copy of the book. It would've been a hilarious parody of so many things if it weren't actually goddamned serious.

Edit: Seriously, it's like a Chick Tract had a child with Randian fantasy and bad self-insert Mary Sue fanfiction while coating itself in the accoutrements of science fiction.

Comment author: Vaniver 19 July 2015 03:25:31PM 4 points [-]

Ayn "even children with copies of evil overlords in their heads don't fall for her shit" Rand

Fictional evidence, much?

Comment author: [deleted] 20 July 2015 01:18:07PM 1 point [-]

Fictional evidence as a joke, on top of what I'd consider loads and loads of real-world evidence.