KyleRudy comments on September Less Wrong Meetup aka Eliezer's Bayesian Birthday Bash - Less Wrong

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Comment author: KyleRudy 08 September 2010 03:58:26PM *  15 points [-]

As it turns out, there's an upper limit to the number of happy birthdays post-humans can have before they find the whole thing entirely too embarrassing. When the mass of their attics approaches the Chandrasekhar limit, simply from all the tacky gag gifts stuffed away where no one has to see them, most vigitilligenarians find something more interesting to celebrate. Until then, enjoy the cake!

Comment author: MartinB 08 September 2010 04:09:27PM 16 points [-]

Don't celebrate birthdays, but logarithms or exponents. Gets easier, once the sun is gone.

Comment author: mkehrt 08 September 2010 11:23:46PM 6 points [-]

Yeah it's definitely all about large powers of two of Planck times. Nothing else is actually worth celebrating.

Comment author: cousin_it 09 September 2010 03:04:17PM 2 points [-]

This idea has the bug/feature that you're overwhelmingly likely to have already celebrated most of your "birthdays".