Oscar_Cunningham comments on On accepting an argument if you have limited computational power. - Less Wrong
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I'd respond to that thusly: In order to extend our tools a little bit (as is necessary to deal with new situations), it helps to imagine extending them further than necessary. Otherwise multiple extensions in series will render them hopeless.