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jasonmcdowell comments on Torture Simulated with Flipbooks - Less Wrong Discussion

9 Post author: Amanojack 26 May 2011 01:00AM

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Comment author: jasonmcdowell 26 May 2011 02:00:40AM *  3 points [-]

I'm reminded of a story in Orion's Arm where a super intelligence is simulated with pencil and paper. This depiction isn't a flipbook of course. In the story, a bunch of volunteer baseline human carried out the algorithm of a super intelligence doing the arithmetic by hand on pieces of paper. They did it as a hobby.

After searching for a while, I found the story.