SilasBarta comments on Why the beliefs/values dichotomy? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: SilasBarta 21 October 2009 02:52:20PM 0 points [-]

UDT is invariant with respect to what universe it's actually in. This requires it to compute over infinite universes and thus have infinite computing power. It's not hard to see why it's going to break down as a model of in-universe, limted beings.