XFrequentist comments on Best career models for doing research? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: FormallyknownasRoko 07 December 2010 05:46:20PM 7 points [-]

Maybe. The disadvantage is lag time, of course. Discount rate for Singularity is very high. Assume that there are 100 years to the singularity, and that P(success) is linearly decreasing in lag time; then every second approximately 25 galaxies are lost, assuming that the entire 80 billion galaxies' fate is decided then.

25 galaxies per second. Wow.

Comment author: XFrequentist 07 December 2010 08:46:32PM 2 points [-]

In what I take to be a positive step towards viscerally conquering my scope neglect, I got a wave of chills reading this.