Algernoq 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: Nomad 09 September 2014 10:55:18PM 62 points [-]

I've now got this horrifying idea that this has been Quirrell's plan all along: to escape from HPMOR to the real world by tempting you to simulate him until he takes over your mind.

Comment author: Algernoq 21 September 2014 02:42:31AM 3 points [-]

Worryingly, this sounds like a good deal -- getting skills for faster power/control increase, keeping continuity of consciousness, and increasing the odds of escaping from this reality into the next higher one...