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If you’re going to cheat, go all the way and recite it in base 2^882,589,933-1.

Learning that also will help you cover larger primes, once they get found.

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I've already memorized it in binary though.

How about memorizing the python script that prints out the binary?

Or how about the bash script that takes python's print out of the binary and converts it to decimal?

Or how about memorizing a useful enough set of mathematical heuristics such that you can eventually rederive truths such as this one?

If you’re going compress it to an algorithm that, given enough time, allows you to construct the number, don’t just stop there!

Shout-out to Truly Part of You: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fg9fXrHpeaDD6pEPL/truly-part...

Just have a tiny device that sparks a vacuum catastrophe, resulting in a wave of annihilation expanding outward at the speed of light, creating an empty void which will spontaneously produce another Big Bang, resulting in a universe in which some sentient being somewhere will rediscover that particular prime number? Keep it small and lightweight, and it will be super convenient!

That would go against the intention of the problem because we are looking for a mental technique, not a device.

So it would be perfect if I had a mental technique for sparking vacuum decay? What would be truly perfect if the mental technique could be packaged as a joke.

Jokes? You must be mistaken, we don't have those here.

I see. So HN's subculture is really about universal salvation. I guess I'll just continue working on my paperclip optimizing AI.

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