Will_Newsome comments on Open Thread, June 16-30, 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Will_Newsome 16 June 2012 01:21:02PM 2 points [-]

(Also remember that humans have to "simulate" each other using logic-like prior information even in the straightforward efficient-causal scenario—it would be prohibitively expensive for humans to re-derive all possible pooling equilibria &c. from scratch for each and every overlapping set of sense data. "Acausal" economics is just an edge case of normal economics.)