CCC comments on Rationality Quotes September 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Strange7 04 September 2012 07:21:36PM 2 points [-]

Wish 2: I wish for a text-to-speech device capable of reading from this scroll with perfect accuracy.

Wish 3: delegated to the device from #2.

Comment author: CCC 06 September 2012 07:58:15AM 2 points [-]

Text-to-speech device provided. It reads from the scroll with perfect accuracy and low speed. It will take a few hundred years to complete this task.

You will need to change the batteries once an hour; it you forget, it starts reading from the start of the scroll again. (And where do you get a large supply of size Q batteries, in any case?)

Comment author: Strange7 14 September 2012 02:21:04AM 0 points [-]

I know some electrical engineers. It's not all that hard to rig up an uniniterruptible power supply that runs off line voltage. The delay is inconvenient, but for the right wish it's acceptable.