LessWrong12m agoenergy 128

Hair Thickness of My Friends

Intro I have a microscope. It can see hair. Humans have hair. Some of my friends are humans. How thick is my friends' hair? Apparently, if I go around asking my friends for a strand of their hair, about half will just give one to me, and almost all the rest will give one when I explain that I'm going to see how thick it is under a microscope. Your mileage may vary. My parents have not yet chanced upon the card with taped and labelled hair strands, but if they do then they might have some, uh, pointed questions. I'll just tell them I'm trying to diversify my clone army. Hey, at least it's not like that time a friend of a friend's ex once drew someone's blood at a party. [1] Unfortunately, I never got around to asking her for one of the blood vials she was known to possess. Methods To measure length, I broke off a tiny piece of a clear ruler and put it under the microscope with the hair. Then, I had Free Claude (from 2025?) write some code so I could compare two lengths easily by clicking points. Then I modified some Claude analysis code because I was too lazy to write it myself. Here's what mine looked like (At the time I had some black hair and some bleached bronze-ish hair, and bo

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