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ah thank you! There was another comment: "That is Yudkowsky's M.O. in that, like a 419 letter, he inserts a lot of garbage into everything he writes designed t
by andrewfromx 4y ago
ah thank you! There was another comment:
"That is Yudkowsky's M.O. in that, like a 419 letter, he inserts a lot of garbage into everything he writes designed to drive away real rational thinkers because he is looking for followers for a cult that is some mash-up of L. Ron Hubbard, Teilhard de Chardin, and H. P. Lovecraft. That's the whole point of Sequences: the smart people realize it is crap, the not-so-smart people struggle with it and think it is profound."
I'm sorry to admit I thought it was profound :)
- gus_massa 4y agoI agree with the GP. More details. The story you quoted makes no sense and has a lot of small errors that is difficult to know where to start. One important thing is that you can't just mix some powers and get a "bacteria". They have lot of internal structure and layers of different materials that must be in the right position. It makes less sense than the worst case scenario in https://xkcd.com/748/ https://xkcd.com/748/