derekz comments on Expected futility for humans - Less Wrong

11 [deleted] 09 June 2009 12:04PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (35)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: JamesCole 09 June 2009 12:35:36PM 1 point [-]

A lot of this probably comes down to:

Don’t assume – that you have a rich enough picture of yourself, a rich enough picture of the rest of reality, or that your ability to mentally trace through the consequences of actions comes anywhere near the richness of reality’s ability to do so.

Comment author: derekz 09 June 2009 01:02:16PM 0 points [-]

You could use that feedback from the results of prior actions. Like: http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Individual/Self/zahn.txt