Comment by Lachann on PZ Myers on the Infeasibility of Whole Brain Emulation · 2012-07-15T00:49:55.476Z · LW · GW

It's possible to directly read the state of transistors in the phone's memory via scanning capacitance microscopy (http://www.multiprobe.com/technology/technologyassets/S05_1_direct_measurements_of_charge_in_floating_gate.pdf), so you can reconstruct the actual contents of the memory. Probably the greater challenge would be figuring out how to cut the phone into slices without damaging the memory.

Comment by Lachann on Framing a problem in a foreign language seems to reduce decision biases · 2012-06-25T17:43:16.395Z · LW · GW

Found it through Google Scholar:

http://psychology.uchicago.edu/people/faculty/ForeignLanguageEffect.pdf

Comment by Lachann on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 15, chapter 84 · 2012-04-11T12:07:25.164Z · LW · GW

Maybe he's afraid she'll come after him next.