David_Gerard comments on List of Problems That Motivated UDT - Less Wrong

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Comment author: David_Gerard 06 June 2012 03:02:34PM 0 points [-]

More to the point, actually solving some of these problems may well be NP-complete. But what do we and evolution do in practice, when we have to solve the problem and throwing up our hands is not an option? We and it use a numerical approximation which works pretty darned well. Worse is, in fact, better.