Cyan comments on Open Thread: May 2009 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Cyan 01 May 2009 04:44:38PM 1 point [-]

Here is our monthly place to discuss Less Wrong topics that have not appeared in recent posts.

Topics that have appeared in recent posts are strictly forbidden upon pain of 3^^^3 dust specks in your eye.

Comment author: [deleted] 04 May 2009 01:01:04AM 0 points [-]

Would you hurt me if I pointed out that G_1 is actually 3^^^^3, not 3^^^3?

Comment author: Cyan 04 May 2009 04:59:26AM 1 point [-]

No, I wouldn't hurt you -- but I would send you to your room with only Knuth up-arrows for dinner.

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Comment author: Cyan 02 May 2009 03:38:41AM * 0 points [-]

There's no actual dust specks -- we just wire dust-speck-simulating punitive cybernetic components into your nervous system and run 'em 3^^^3 times.

Comment author: randallsquared 01 May 2009 08:24:01PM 0 points [-]

Well, someone's eye.

Comment author: Cyan 01 May 2009 08:49:53PM 4 points [-]

No, all in the offender's eye -- I have it on good authority that it's worse than 50 years of torture.

Comment author: Lojban 01 May 2009 07:26:46PM 0 points [-]

What's 3^^^3? I take it more than 27.

Comment author: SoullessAutomaton 01 May 2009 07:31:07PM 2 points [-]

If memory serves me, that's using Knuth's up-arrow notation.

What it works out to is 3^3^3^3^(... seven trillion more exponents here ...)^3^3^3.

It's a large number.

Comment author: dfranke 01 May 2009 07:33:18PM * 0 points [-]