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gwern comments on August 2015 Media Thread - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: gwern 06 August 2015 09:14:15PM 0 points [-]

If it wasn't imperfect, there wouldn't be much of a story. I think it's a well done transhuman society simply because it's bad in a way that is not just possible but a pretty plausible extrapolation: someone is usually root.

Comment author: [deleted] 07 August 2015 03:32:50AM 0 points [-]

Ah. So you're only really interested in bad things.