Sniffnoy comments on An Xtranormal Intelligence Explosion - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Sniffnoy 08 November 2010 12:52:42PM 2 points [-]

Programmer: What happened to the moon?

Robot: I've turned it into a giant computer so I could become a god.

But... but... everybody likes the moon!

Comment author: Alicorn 08 November 2010 02:17:27PM 9 points [-]

Everybody likes the outside of the moon. The interior's sort of useless. Maybe the pretty outside can be kept as a shell.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 08 November 2010 03:49:03PM 5 points [-]

I think that if you don't want ecological disruption from changing the tides, you shouldn't change the mass very much. In other words, I don't know how to do the math, but I'm assuming that 1 to 5% would make an annoying difference.