For those who have down-voted or disagreed: happy to hear (and potentially engage with) substantive counter arguments. But I don't think the Forum is a good place to post posturing, which the original post sometimes descends into.  

How come this was only posted with five days notice?

Strong vote of no-confidence in the combo of (the author(s), at this time, with this strategy), based on this post. 

This post does not suggest to me that the author(s) have a deep, nuanced understanding of the trade-offs. The strategy of rallying grass-roots might make sense, but could also cause a lot of harm, and be counter productive in many many ways. 

Oh, that's interesting. Did you folks come up with that methodology? 

Oh, also:  

• I was confused by references to amputation until I understood that amputated tentacles can act autonomously for some amount of time. A brief, direct description of this would be useful.
• Your 0.025 and 0.035 are extremely specific; it would be interesting to get a brief description of how you ended up with those numbers without having to delve into the full report.

Thanks for this report! I 100% agree with Ben Stewart this is really really cool. However, minor gripe: I do wish this had been edited for clarity of language. Even by EA Forum standards this the prose here is about as twisty as a pissed off octopus' tentacles. 

I think this is one of the things that distinguishes EAs and rationalists from randomly selected smart people. I like to say that EAs have a taste for biting bullets. 

Oh, I wasn't implying any link between worlds 335 and 281, I was just riffing off the idea of sentient and/or symbiotic fungi. I actually think by tying them together in the main body of the post it confusing things.