Vladimir_Nesov comments on What's in a name? That which we call a rationalist… - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 25 April 2009 04:37:47PM *  1 point [-]

Hmmm... What matters is the structure you can use to represent a hypothesis space for your purposes, not its size in some silly representation. If you can denote 3^^^^3 states as X and get away with it, it doesn't matter that the number of states is 3^^^^3 and not (horror!) 3^^^3.