Quinn comments on [LINK] Cantor's theorem, the prisoner's dilemma, and the halting problem - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Quinn 30 June 2013 11:05:41PM 2 points [-]

Of course, when you ignore the payoff matrix, the argument is no longer really about the Prisoner's Dilemma (and so I don't know that it's fair to accuse the barber paradox of having a lot of extra cruft not present in the PD formulation).

But I agree that this is a cute presentation of diagonal arguments in culturally relevant terms. A fun read.