Re: The Unfathomable Virtuous Tangerine

Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Sun, 07 Nov 1999 13:09:22 -0600

Spudboy100@aol.com wrote:
>
> As far as
> Neitszche, who wants to be locked into an Eternal Return-I even hate
> television re-runs, let alone the universe doing exactly the same thing with
> the same people. Poor Neitch died of tertiarry syphallus and ended up
> speaking to horses along the way. For some reason the nazis liked him too. Go
> figure.

Okay, once again we have the idea that *I* hate, and which I am going to keep on objecting to, to wit, what you "want" to happen doesn't have the vaguest influence on that kind of large-scale pre-human reality. If the Reality is large enough, then you're going to get every possible configuration of 10^80 atoms in 10^11 lightyears at least once. And y'know, I think the Reality is that large.

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