Sniffnoy comments on Cultivating our own gardens - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Sniffnoy 01 June 2010 12:24:24AM 0 points [-]

I don't see how this is relevant to the statement that adding nodes would be changing the problem. You're given a specific graph of distances, the challenge is to realize it in the plane. You can't just add nodes and decide to realize a different graph in the plane instead; where would the distances even come from, anyway, if you haven't yet computed an embedding?

Comment author: SilasBarta 01 June 2010 12:26:33AM *  0 points [-]

SarahC cleared it up, so I understand what you do and don't know in the problem, and why I assumed certain things were given that aren't.

Though I agree with Roko's comment that this doesn't seem to provide insight on resolving ethical differences.