Mestroyer comments on Three more ways identity can be a curse - Less Wrong

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Comment author: maia 28 April 2013 02:49:42PM 1 point [-]

In the case of the mathematician, the identity model gives the same result as consequentialism would. Changing the order of summation has worked before, and there is a cheap experiment to see if it will work again.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 28 April 2013 06:24:45PM 5 points [-]

Yes, but the identity model uses a lot less computational power.