SimonF comments on The Irrationality Game - Less Wrong

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Comment author: SimonF 23 June 2011 10:31:15AM 0 points [-]

Clearly, I do not understand how this data point should influence my estimate of the probablity that general, computationally tractable methods exist.

Comment author: timtyler 23 June 2011 08:08:08PM 0 points [-]

To me it seems a lot like the question of whether general, computationally tractable methods of compression exist.

Provided you are allowed to assume that the expected inputs obey some vaguely-sensible version of Occam's razor, I would say that the answer is just "yes, they do".