Epiphany comments on A Series of Increasingly Perverse and Destructive Games - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Epiphany 16 February 2013 05:14:26AM 0 points [-]

This would be a fun puzzle except for that what I'd do would greatly depend on how long we were given to write the program. Optimizing for a ten minute program would be totally different from optimizing for a program that I've got a week to complete. And were I given no deadline, my strategy may simply be to opt to work on it so slowly that he could never kill anybody for losing.