Qiaochu_Yuan comments on Simulating Problems - Less Wrong

1 Post author: Andreas_Giger 30 January 2013 01:14PM

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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 31 January 2013 03:31:07AM 1 point [-]

What you have stated is unclear enough that I can't recognize it as a problem in either game theory or decision theory, and meanwhile you are being very rude. Disincentivizing people who try to help you is not a good way to convince people to help you.

Comment author: Andreas_Giger 31 January 2013 04:09:13AM *  0 points [-]

That's because it's not strictly speaking a problem in GT/DT, it's a problem (or meta-problem if you want to call it that) about GT/DT. It's not "which decision should agent X make", but "how can we prove that problems A and B are identical."

Concerning the matter of rudeness, suppose you write a post and however many comments about a mathematical issue, only for someone who doesn't even read what you write and says he has no idea what you're talking about to conclude that you're not talking about mathematics. I find that rude.