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[SEQ RERUN] That Tiny Note of Discord

5th Sep 2012

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[-]Luke_A_Somers13y00

Fun Theory needs a commonsense exception for global catastrophic risk management.

I suspect that the balance of factors within Fun Theory already allows this sort of thing. Annihilation is not fun.

[-]Armok_GoB13y20

I see you haven't played Dwarf Fortress. :p

[-]Luke_A_Somers13y20

Dwarf Fortress gets a lot less fun if you're executed upon colony failure. If only because you'll be seriously avoiding 'fun' times.

[-]Armok_GoB13y10

True.

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Today's post, That Tiny Note of Discord was originally published on 23 September 2008. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):

Eliezer started to dig himself out of his philosophical hole when he noticed a tiny inconsistency.

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This post is part of the Rerunning the Sequences series, where we'll be going through Eliezer Yudkowsky's old posts in order so that people who are interested can (re-)read and discuss them. The previous post was Horrible LHC Inconsistency, and you can use the sequence_reruns tag or rss feed to follow the rest of the series.

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