Kindly comments on Problem of Optimal False Information - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kindly 17 October 2012 12:02:59AM 1 point [-]

So for someone who valued knowing the truth highly enough, this problem actually should be impossible for Omega to construct.

Not necessarily: the problem only stipulates that of all truths you are told the worst truth, and of all falsehoods the best falsehood. If all you value is truth and you can't be hacked, then it's possible that the worst truth still has positive utility, and the best falsehood still has negative utility.