Esar 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: Vladimir_Nesov 03 September 2012 12:37:41AM 13 points [-]

A year in a day is not very impressive, but 365 years (of research) in a year is. Depending on how many people can be placed in these boxes at any given time, this may amount to three centuries worth of progress (at least in software and mathematics).

Comment author: [deleted] 06 September 2012 06:01:38PM 1 point [-]

I think you'd have to get a pretty large team in there to see any substantial results. One person, working alone without feedback or contact with other scientists or any chance to do experiments won't do very much more in 365 years than they would in one.