Comment on Open Thread June 2010, Part 2

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 20:05:02 GMT

Even if it's written by Eliezer, that's still generalizing from fictional evidence. We don't know what the laws of physics are supposed to be there..

Well. You probably can't use time-travel to get infinite computing power. But that's not to say you can't get strictly finite power out of it; in Harry's case, his experiment would probably have worked just fine if he'd been the sort of person who'd refuse to write "DO NOT MESS WITH TIME".

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