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Lumifer comments on Fiction Considered Harmful - Less Wrong Discussion

5 Post author: abramdemski 08 October 2015 06:34PM

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Comment author: Lumifer 13 October 2015 02:40:14PM 2 points [-]

Current genetic engineering, yes, but 50 or 100 years from now? Remember, we're talking not about what's viable now, but rather what's plausible and a unicorn is very plausible biologically -- it's merely technical difficulties which prevent us from creating one.

Comment author: abramdemski 13 October 2015 10:13:20PM 0 points [-]

Touché!

It seems worth considering that I might benefit from specifically practicing being imaginative, or otherwise modifying my "two modes" thought pattern.