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Eliezer's author notes say: If you want to know everything HJPEV knows and more, read the Sequences.
That would have been fair enough while there were only a few chapters of MoR up. Now, however, Eliezer is promising that reading the Sequences will teach readers how to perform Transfiguration, how to protect themselves against telepaths, how to conjure up a (v2.0) Patronus, and so forth. That seems a little optimistic.
Well I read Lesswrong, and I'm already protected against all know telepaths, and can destroy every dementor in existence.
This is true, but I don't think the Sequences need to teach what has already been covered to a sufficient degree of detail in the text. I can, for instance, vouch that Occlumency is taught well enough by the fic alone; since I read chapter 27, no-one has been able to read my mind! And I think I got the theory for conjuring a Patronous v2.0 down, too; as soon as I get a magic wand, I can put that to the test and see if it works.
Yeah, I can only imagine how disappointed they'll be when they learn stuff about how to build benevolent superintelligences instead.
I can't find the article where you list hardware specs. Is it on the wiki?
You've worked out how to do that now? Cool!