Oligopsony comments on Consider a robot vacuum. - Less Wrong

16 Post author: BrandonReinhart 05 June 2012 08:08AM

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Comment author: Oligopsony 05 June 2012 03:16:30PM 15 points [-]

I've gotten so used to wacky speculation on this site that I thought this thread would be about, like, what if the quantum vacuum... was actually a robot???

Comment author: gwern 05 June 2012 03:37:34PM *  5 points [-]

But that would explain everything - the simulators pulling our plug equates to a collapse of the vacuum, causing the Great Silence and at a stroke account for all the major mysteries of the universe! Eureka!

Comment author: satt 06 June 2012 12:38:44AM 3 points [-]

I was expecting a riff on Yvain's blue-minimizing robot. Apparently the post being about literal robot vacuums was too obvious an idea to occur to me — I must be running in contrarian mode right now.

Comment author: DanielLC 05 June 2012 11:22:40PM 1 point [-]

I was thinking it would be something along the lines of "Consider a spherical cow in a vacuum...".