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by pdonis 2187 days ago
> he's pretty much saying Slate Star Codex has fans who will miss it a lot

No, he's not, he's saying, explicitly, in what you quoted, that "future generations of teachers will assign their students" Slate Star Codex as reading material. That's waaaay beyond "fans who will miss it a lot".
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tptacek 2187 days ago
Can I say that the plain meaning of these words --- "generations" connoting teachers en masse, the way generations of teachers have for decades assigned the "I Have A Dream Speech" --- is also pretty obviously hyperbolic.

Maybe you believe the blog was headed in some genius direction, and lament a lost future. But you can't reasonably suggest that the SSC that exists today is going to be taught in schools.

Or, again, if you do, you can't claim to hold the mainstream opinion on the matter. I believe all sorts of weird shit nobody else believes; I'm not casting stones.

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pdonis 2187 days ago
> you can't reasonably suggest that the SSC that exists today is going to be taught in schools.

I'm not. But I'm not so sure Scott Aaronson wasn't. Call it hyperbole if you like, since technically Aaronson put those words in the hypothetical mouth of a hypothetical SSC fan, but my reading is closer to "Freudian slip".

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tptacek 2187 days ago
Rhetorical "you"! Sorry about that.
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