army1987 comments on Epistemic vs. Instrumental Rationality: Approximations - Less Wrong
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If epistemic rationalists can't speak of a "better approximation," then how can an epistemic rationalist exist in a universe with finite computational resources?
They can speak of a “closer approximation” instead. (But that still needs a metric.)