Speaking of weird characters in the sequences, I’ve always wondered who “the one”, eg here, might be. Is it Neo from the Matrix by any chance?
It’s a parable’y way of saying “someone” and “the same someone as earlier”?
Indeed. Usually a stereotypical “person who doesn’t ‘get it’.”
I’ve always thought that one of the ultimate LW insults would be: “you’re so ‘the one’.”
I really didn’t get that impression. Read it just as neutral affectation.
It’s usually Eliezer’s foil; a person espousing the incorrect view he’s arguing against.
Speaking of weird characters in the sequences, I’ve always wondered who “the one”, eg here, might be. Is it Neo from the Matrix by any chance?
It’s a parable’y way of saying “someone” and “the same someone as earlier”?
Indeed. Usually a stereotypical “person who doesn’t ‘get it’.”
I’ve always thought that one of the ultimate LW insults would be: “you’re so ‘the one’.”
I really didn’t get that impression. Read it just as neutral affectation.
It’s usually Eliezer’s foil; a person espousing the incorrect view he’s arguing against.