khafra comments on Willing gamblers, spherical cows, and AIs - Less Wrong

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Comment author: khafra 09 April 2013 05:07:23PM 2 points [-]

Yes; to check your visual acuity, you block off one eye, then open that one and block the other. To check (and improve) your conceptual acuity, you block off everything that isn't an agent, then you block of everything that isn't an algorithm, then you block of everything that isn't an institution, etc.

Unless you can hypercompute, in which case that's probably not a useful heuristic.