taw comments on Playing Video Games In Shuffle Mode - Less Wrong

17 Post author: talisman 23 March 2009 11:59AM

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Comment author: taw 23 March 2009 01:42:32PM 0 points [-]

Is there even a useful distinction between beginner and advanced material? Perhaps if something required heavy math background. But in this interpretation examples like Newcomb problems are actually anti-advanced because they collapse into triviality or nonsense when you try to apply any mathematics to them.

And we can crosslink as much as Eliezer did on OB. I like this about his style.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 23 March 2009 05:37:46PM 2 points [-]

But in this interpretation examples like Newcomb problems are actually anti-advanced because they collapse into triviality or nonsense when you try to apply any mathematics to them.

You believe that only because you don't understand how to do the math, the problem itself is not inherently mysterious.