Steve_Rayhawk comments on Counterfactual Mugging and Logical Uncertainty - Less Wrong

6 Post author: Vladimir_Nesov 05 September 2009 10:31PM

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Comment author: Steve_Rayhawk 06 September 2009 02:58:39AM 3 points [-]

What does Omega do if your algorithm contains "if ⊥ is provable, then give $100"?

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 06 September 2009 01:49:01PM *  0 points [-]

Could you be more explicit about the intention of the question?

Omega's surgery doesn't introduce contradictions in your code: it doesn't (say) make Pi(10000) evaluate to 7, it just replaces Pi(10000) in the code with 7, which gives perfectly good code, just different from the original.