[extropy-chat] secular heaven awaits extropes

[Eliezer S. Yudkowsky]

Lee Corbin wrote:
> Eliezer writes
> 
> 
>>I am convinced that this is the greatest webcomic ever.
>>http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus37.html
> 
> 
> I looked at the first two:
> 
>      http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus1.html
>      http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus2.html
> 
> Surely I am not the only person who "doesn't get it". The first
> is some kind of fantasy revenge going on in a little girl's mind,
> perhaps, or.... something?
> 
> The second seemed like petty revenge for a comment given
> kindly by someone.
> 
> Thanks for any help---I realize the possible cultural gap here,
> but someone has to be uncool, so it might as well be me.

1)  What makes you think any of this takes place in Minus's *imagination*?

2)  It might help to read more than 2 pages.

3)  It might also help to have had some previous experience with 
webcomics; this one might be an acquired taste.

-- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence