Warrigal comments on Rationality Quotes October 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 26 October 2011 02:46:12PM 0 points [-]

It's a good strategy if "possible" means "not too simple to function correctly". You can model a human as a point mass affected only by gravity, and this model is presumably too simple for most purposes, but it's not clear in what sense it's an impossible model.