thomblake comments on Frequentist Magic vs. Bayesian Magic - Less Wrong

41 Post author: Wei_Dai 08 April 2010 08:34PM

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Comment author: gwern 15 April 2010 10:11:10PM 2 points [-]

Hey, don't laugh. That's useful to know - now you know any Turing Machine less than 10 is bluffing when it threatens 3^^^^3 specks of sand in eyes.

Comment author: thomblake 15 April 2010 10:30:52PM 1 point [-]

Off the cuff, couldn't it actually accomplish that if it just doesn't terminate?

Comment author: gwern 15 April 2010 11:38:28PM 1 point [-]

If it doesn't terminate, then I think its threat would be an infinite number of sand specks, wouldn't it?