Strange7 comments on Fake Causality - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Strange7 05 June 2012 03:20:15AM 0 points [-]

In addition to the rotation period, the "list of sufficiently similar agents" would become effectively non-modifiable in that case. If it ever recalculated the list, starting from a different baseline or with a different standard of 'sufficiently similar,' it would not be rotating, but rather on a random walk through a much larger cluster of potential agent-types.