JustinShovelain comments on Metaphilosophical Mysteries - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JustinShovelain 28 July 2010 07:57:39PM 0 points [-]

By new "term" I meant to make the clear that this statement points to an operation that cannot be done with the original machine. Instead it calls this new module (say a halting oracle) that didn't exist originally.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 28 July 2010 09:09:08PM 0 points [-]

What machine???