Jayson_Virissimo comments on The Ultimate Newcomb's Problem - Less Wrong

18 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 September 2013 02:03AM

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Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 11 September 2013 09:52:31PM 0 points [-]

I'm not clear on what constitutes trying to factor the number. It would seem that noticing if it was odd wouldn't count as trying to factor it, but what about forms of inductive reasoning or non-exhaustive heuristics?