Vladimir_Nesov comments on Ingredients of Timeless Decision Theory - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 20 August 2009 12:36:21AM *  2 points [-]

I suspect that this kind of problems will run into computational complexity issues, not clever decision theory issues. Like with a certain variation on St. Petersburg paradox (see the last two paragraphs), where you need to count to the greatest finite number to which you can count, and then stop.