taelor comments on Rationality Quotes January 2013 - Less Wrong

6 Post author: katydee 02 January 2013 05:23PM

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Comment author: MixedNuts 16 January 2013 09:09:16PM 0 points [-]

It's extremely inelegant, and finding yourself using one means you're running into a dead end.

Comment author: DanArmak 19 January 2013 12:07:16PM 1 point [-]

I don't see why a complement would be inelegant. It's just one extra bit of specification.

Now, non-definable non-computable numbers (or sets), they are inelegant :-)