Qiaochu_Yuan comments on Rationality Quotes January 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 21 January 2013 09:24:54PM 2 points [-]

It sounds to me like you're implicitly enforcing a Cartesian separation between the physical world and the algorithms that agents in it run. Properties of the algorithms that agents in the world run are still properties of the world.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 22 January 2013 09:44:50PM 1 point [-]

I don't see why I'm relying in it anymore than than the VNM-utiliterian is.