MarkusRamikin comments on Formative Youth - Less Wrong

20 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 24 February 2009 11:02PM

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Comment author: MarkusRamikin 05 July 2011 09:52:40AM 1 point [-]

< safely harmless area of my brain

Are there areas of the brain that are harmless unsafely? ;)

Comment author: MixedNuts 05 July 2011 10:36:24AM 2 points [-]

Yes. A safeguard that malfunctions. It won't cause harm (just consume energy to do nothing, at worst) but if security breaks down upstream, it'll be unsafe.

Comment author: MarkusRamikin 05 July 2011 11:02:45AM 2 points [-]

That makes sense, and I didn't think of it.