timtyler comments on A Request for Open Problems - Less Wrong

25 Post author: MrHen 08 May 2009 01:33PM

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Comment author: timtyler 10 May 2009 09:03:27AM 1 point [-]

Not a serious problem - just consider objects which can't be described in less than a million bits after a million timesteps instead.

Comment author: Peter_de_Blanc 10 May 2009 01:00:21PM 0 points [-]

If a problem is so serious that you have to change your prior, then I'd call that a serious problem.

Comment author: timtyler 10 May 2009 06:59:47PM 1 point [-]

Did you understand why the problem is not serious? Your comment was nit-picking the example. Other similar examples make exactly the same point - but are not vulnerable to such nit-picking.