ialdabaoth comments on Simulate and Defer To More Rational Selves - Less Wrong

125 Post author: BrienneYudkowsky 17 September 2014 06:11PM

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Comment author: ialdabaoth 19 September 2014 12:14:17PM *  45 points [-]

Update:

I've slept, rested, stuffed myself full of multivitamins, and got through my flu. My most necessary possessions are in my car. I am pointed West, with a room waiting for me in Berkeley.

puts on Blues Brothers glasses

Hit it.

Comment author: Vaniver 20 September 2014 03:00:52AM 14 points [-]

Drive safely, and live well! We're behind you.

Comment author: ialdabaoth 26 September 2014 03:40:00AM 26 points [-]

salutes I profoundly appreciate that. So far, there have been zero police chases inside shopping malls, or their metaphorical equivalents.

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Invoking what brave, confident Brent would do has been working SWIMMINGLY WELL for me. Absurdly well. Impossibly well. I have literally spent my entire life not understanding the underlying principle behind "fake it till you make it", but now I get it instinctively.

Thank you all.