Stuart_Armstrong comments on The Anthropic Trilemma - Less Wrong

24 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 September 2009 01:47AM

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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 27 September 2009 09:32:15AM 9 points [-]

Just an aside - this is obviously something that Eliezer - someone highly intelligent and thoughful - has thought deeply about, and has had difficulty answering.

Yet most of the answers - including my own - seem to be of the "this is the obvious solution to the dilemma" sort.

Comment author: DanArmak 27 September 2009 01:03:09PM 5 points [-]

...Only each obvious solution proposed is different.

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 27 September 2009 04:46:21PM 0 points [-]

Bien entendue...

Comment author: casebash 16 April 2016 05:07:37AM 0 points [-]

People often miss a solution that it obvious in retrospect.