Normal_Anomaly comments on The Design Space of Minds-In-General - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 11 January 2011 01:26:57AM 4 points [-]

Well, here's a recipe for a paperclip in English: Make a wire, 10 cm long and 1mm in diameter, composed of an alloy of 99.8% iron and 0.2% carbon. Start at one end and bend it such that the segments from 2-2.5cm, 2.75-3.25cm, 5.25-5.75cm form half-circles, with all the bends in the same direction and forming an inward spiral (the end with the first bend is outside the third bend).