katydee comments on How to Become a 1000 Year Old Vampire - Less Wrong

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Comment author: katydee 03 October 2013 03:40:39AM 0 points [-]

[Someone who does all these things] can plausibly get 500x speedup and live 1000 normal years in 2. That seems pretty wild, but none of these things are particularly out there, and people like Elon Musk or Eliezer Yudkowsky do seem to do around that magnitude more than the average joe.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Comment author: [deleted] 03 October 2013 05:11:22AM 2 points [-]

I have no such evidence. I guess I should make it clearer that this is somewhat self-consciously absurd motivational imagery, rather than predictive statements.

Note that the actual prediction was 2x or 3x for what someone could really get.

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