Oscar_Cunningham comments on On accepting an argument if you have limited computational power. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 11 January 2012 07:41:03PM 3 points [-]

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.