SoullessAutomaton comments on Timeless Decision Theory: Problems I Can't Solve - Less Wrong

39 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 July 2009 12:02AM

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Comment author: SoullessAutomaton 20 July 2009 02:41:01AM *  3 points [-]

I understand that much, but if there's anything I've learned from computer science it's that turing completeness can pop up in the strangest places.

I of course admit it was an off-the-cuff, intuitive thought, but the structure of the problem reminds me vaguely of the combinatorial calculus, particularly Smullyan's Mockingbird forest.

Comment author: thomblake 20 July 2009 02:58:06AM 0 points [-]

This was a clever ploy to distract me with logic problems, wasn't it?

Comment author: SoullessAutomaton 20 July 2009 03:00:37AM 4 points [-]

No, but mentioning the rest of Smullyan's books might be.