Wei_Dai comments on Open Thread: February 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 03 February 2010 03:52:12PM *  1 point [-]

A man in a room with a light switch isn't very useful.

Peter de Blanc wrote a post that seems relevant: What Makes a Hint Good?

Nick Hay, Marcello and I discussed this question a while ago: if you had a halting oracle, how could you use it to help you prove a theorem, such as the Riemann Hypothesis? Let’s say you are only allowed to ask one question; you get one bit of information.