“You can always reach me through my blog!” he panted. “Overpowering Falsehood dot com, the number one site for rational thinking about the future—”
Zendegi, by Greg Egan (2010)
Go ahead, down-vote me. It’s still paradoxically-awesome to be burned in a Greg Egan novel...
What is the context of the quote? Is the OF.com guy a total dolt, an arrogant twat, a cloud cuckoolander, or what?
Found a couple of semi-spoilery reviews for Zendegi. Apparently it has stand-ins for Robin Hanson and SIAI as foils for the authorial message.
Thought this was worthy of its own thread in Discussion so interested people won’t miss it: http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/2ti/greg_egan_disses_standins_for_overcoming_bias/
Oh, I see—the ref is to ‘Overcoming Bias.com’. For a moment I was confused because overpoweringfalsehood.com doesn’t work and I didn’t see any URL in your profile and I thought you were talking about you being burned and not all of us.
Someone’s snapped it up now: http://whois.domaintools.com/overpoweringfalsehood.com
And not by someone who intends to use it for good, it seems.
(Only now do I realize that ’overpoweringfalsehood.com′ isn’t that bad a domain name.)
That depends entirely on whether ‘overpowering’ is a verb or an adjective.
So… you’re saying it would be a perfect replacement domain for timecube.com?
Same applies to ‘overcoming’ of ‘overcoming bias’.
“Overcoming” doesn’t really work as an adjective.
My goodness, that bias is quite overcoming, wouldn’t you say?
No, nobody would ever say that.
Seems so, 79000 results for “is quite overpowering” compared to 1800 for “is quite overcoming”.
I realize. It was a joke to even see if it sounded like it fit.
I would.
“You can always reach me through my blog!” he panted. “Overpowering Falsehood dot com, the number one site for rational thinking about the future—”
Zendegi, by Greg Egan (2010)
Go ahead, down-vote me. It’s still paradoxically-awesome to be burned in a Greg Egan novel...
What is the context of the quote? Is the OF.com guy a total dolt, an arrogant twat, a cloud cuckoolander, or what?
Found a couple of semi-spoilery reviews for Zendegi. Apparently it has stand-ins for Robin Hanson and SIAI as foils for the authorial message.
Thought this was worthy of its own thread in Discussion so interested people won’t miss it: http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/2ti/greg_egan_disses_standins_for_overcoming_bias/
Oh, I see—the ref is to ‘Overcoming Bias.com’. For a moment I was confused because overpoweringfalsehood.com doesn’t work and I didn’t see any URL in your profile and I thought you were talking about you being burned and not all of us.
Someone’s snapped it up now: http://whois.domaintools.com/overpoweringfalsehood.com
And not by someone who intends to use it for good, it seems.
(Only now do I realize that ’overpoweringfalsehood.com′ isn’t that bad a domain name.)
That depends entirely on whether ‘overpowering’ is a verb or an adjective.
So… you’re saying it would be a perfect replacement domain for timecube.com?
Same applies to ‘overcoming’ of ‘overcoming bias’.
“Overcoming” doesn’t really work as an adjective.
My goodness, that bias is quite overcoming, wouldn’t you say?
No, nobody would ever say that.
Seems so, 79000 results for “is quite overpowering” compared to 1800 for “is quite overcoming”.
I realize. It was a joke to even see if it sounded like it fit.
I would.