lessdazed comments on Rationality Lessons Learned from Irrational Adventures in Romance - Less Wrong

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Comment author: lessdazed 04 October 2011 11:29:15AM *  1 point [-]

Some forms of accuracy are simply wastes of space; how many digits of Pi does rational!Harry know, as compared to rational!Hermione?

That depends: does it "really" count as "knowing" if they have to consciously divide tau by two first?

ETA: actually, the opposite would make more sense to me, with Harry memorizing fewer digits of tau than Hermione memorized of pi.

Comment author: jhuffman 04 October 2011 02:03:24PM *  3 points [-]

No, actually there is a single answer to this. This is a reference to a fanfic/rationality text Yudkowsky wrote - which is excellent by the way.

In his universe Harry has memorized around 6 digits of Pi and Hermione has memorized 100, because that is how many were in the back of her book.

Comment author: lessdazed 04 October 2011 04:25:13PM 0 points [-]

Ah OK, I only read it once and it's been a while. It's never too late to retcon!

Comment author: wedrifid 04 October 2011 01:34:18PM 2 points [-]

That depends: does it "really" count as "knowing" if they have to consciously divide tau by two first?

I hope so. Because if memorizing a big number that can be combined with a simple algorithm in order to calculate digits of Pi counts as memorizing Pi then I'm claiming I know 'infinity' digits.