Lumifer comments on Estimate the Cost of Immortality - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 13 December 2015 11:30:52PM 15 points [-]

How many gold coins would it take for the Roman Empire to land a man on the moon, within 20 years, with 99% confidence?

Comment author: mwengler 15 December 2015 04:02:19PM *  2 points [-]

I would estimate approximately

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Is it permissible to write III^^^III ?

Comment author: Lumifer 15 December 2015 05:04:57PM 7 points [-]

At which point the weight of all this gold would probably be sufficient to start a gravitational collapse leading to a black hole.

And since the man and the moon would meet inside the black hole, PROBLEM SOLVED!