Leonhart comments on Open thread, August 5-11, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Leonhart 05 August 2013 06:58:32PM 14 points [-]

I believe it canonically can't run out of pages, so I'd think hard about how to leverage infinite free paper into world domination.

Comment author: ChristianKl 05 August 2013 09:14:12PM 10 points [-]

I don't think you can infinitely fast pull out papers of the death note, so I doubt that you can produce more paper per hour than the average paper factory.

Comment author: FiftyTwo 05 August 2013 08:39:05PM 5 points [-]

Burn the paper to fuel a turbine. Congratulations you now have infinite free energy.

Comment author: Leonhart 05 August 2013 10:53:29PM 11 points [-]

Then it turns out that Death Note smoke particles retain the magic qualities of the source. Writing one's name in dust with a fingertip becomes fraught with peril.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 05 August 2013 09:32:12PM 3 points [-]

It may be extremely difficult to remove pages at a fast enough rate for this to be practically useful.

Comment author: Protagoras 05 August 2013 08:56:52PM 1 point [-]

And you've set global warming to continue even beyond the exhaustion of fossil fuels.

Comment author: FiftyTwo 05 August 2013 09:34:17PM 5 points [-]

The paper is white yes? If we can cover reasonably large areas of land with it it would make a pretty good reflector of solar radiation

Comment author: DanielLC 06 August 2013 04:12:39AM 1 point [-]

You have to make sure nobody writes any names on it.