TheOtherDave comments on Dragon Ball's Hyperbolic Time Chamber - Less Wrong

35 Post author: gwern 02 September 2012 11:49PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 04 September 2012 10:39:11PM 0 points [-]

Deadlines? Imagine you have an important exam/audition in two days, but haven't had the time to study/rehearse properly. Then, tomorrow you look yourself in the chamber with your books/instrument and leave it when you're totally awesome. OTOH, since (IIRC) you are only allowed into the chamber twice in your life (and even if this weren't the case, you don't want to be 35 subjective years old 25 calendar years after the date on our birth certificate), you only do that for things you *really* care about.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 04 September 2012 11:00:09PM 0 points [-]

I suspect that anything I am sufficiently non-motivated to study/rehearse that I haven't used the available time to do so, I will probably end up not using the time in the chamber to study/rehearse terribly efficiently, either.

Comment author: magfrump 05 September 2012 03:33:46AM 0 points [-]

But if you have a year to do it, you don't have to do it efficiently.

Comment author: gwern 05 September 2012 01:39:16PM 0 points [-]

If you are going to blow an entire year of your all-too-limited life in the HTC, you might a well not go in at all and enjoy a higher quality of life while doing said inefficient studying.