wedrifid comments on Open Thread, August 2010 - Less Wrong
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That is a reasonable assumption to make. We just need to explicitly assert that the intelligence is willing and able to return P(A) for any sane length A that matches the polynomial time condition. (And so explicitly rule out intelligences that just compute perfect answers and to hell with polynomial time limits and pesky things like physical possibility.)
I don't know and the intelligence doesn't care. It just isn't going to give you wrong answers. I think it is reasonable for us to just exclude such intelligences because they are practically useless. I'll include the same caveat that you mentioned earlier - maybe there is some algorithm that never violates logical consistency conditions somehow. That algorithm would be an extremely valuable discovery but one I suspect could be proven impossible. The maths for making such a proof is beyond me.