thomblake comments on Problem of Optimal False Information - Less Wrong

16 Post author: Endovior 15 October 2012 09:42PM

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Comment author: thomblake 16 October 2012 05:38:46PM 3 points [-]

Regardless of whether the third one is plausible, I suspect Omega would know of some hack that is equally weird and unable to be anticipated.

Comment author: Endovior 17 October 2012 06:50:20AM 0 points [-]

A sensible thing to consider. You are effectively dealing with an outcome pump, after all; the problem leaves plenty of solution space available, and outcome pumps usually don't produce an answer you'd expect; they instead produce something that matches the criteria even better then anything you were aware of.