I have a lot of detractors not smart enough to understand large numbers. I say X is better than (bignum >> googolplex) people suffering the tiniest noticeable pain, and the # gets rounded down to "billions" or "quintillions". https://twitter.com/just_an_initial/status/940110359133851648 …
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Replying to @ESYudkowsky
It would have been better if you'd used a googleplex in the first case I think. But yes, this a classic "I'll sneer at this argument by making it clear to the world I completely don't understand it".
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Replying to @ciphergoth
It's hard to guess in advance, rather than in retrospect, which part the idiots will misquote, or what wordsmithing is needed to prevent it. But yes, I now know to use googolplexes rather than Ackermann numbers in thought experiments requiring bignums.
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