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Manfred comments on Friendship is Optimal: A My Little Pony fanfic about an optimization process - Less Wrong Discussion

63 Post author: iceman 08 September 2012 06:16AM

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Comment author: Manfred 09 September 2012 03:43:32AM *  2 points [-]

"Space was a set of cells, each with eight neighboring cells," <-- do you really mean that equestria is 2d? Because cubes have 6 (or 26) neighbors and octahedra don't tessellate.

That was my first thought as well, but there are a variety of ways to make it work. Still, given that he only needs 6 possibilities when finding the block of ruby, I guess "6" was meant there.

Comment author: novalis 09 September 2012 05:58:56AM 4 points [-]

I guess it could be 4d hypercubes, as well. Or hexagonal prisms. Or gyrobifastigiums.

Comment author: Manfred 09 September 2012 06:26:35AM 1 point [-]

gyrobifastigiums.

Ooh, neat!

Comment author: iceman 10 September 2012 02:18:29AM 1 point [-]

You are correct that I meant six there.

Comment author: Baughn 06 July 2013 11:05:49AM 0 points [-]

Hm, I think eight would have been more amusing.

They don't tesselate, nope. That's not a killer problem.

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