Stuart_Armstrong comments on What's special about a fantastic outcome? Suggestions wanted. - Less Wrong

0 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 11 November 2014 11:04AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 November 2014 04:21:10AM 2 points [-]

Merely higher proportion, and we're not worried about the criterion being reverse-engineered? Give a memory expert a large prime number to memorize and talk about outcomes where it's possible to factor a large composite number that has that prime as a factor. Happy outcomes will have that memory expert still be around in some form.

EDIT: No, I take that back because quantum. Some repaired version of the general idea might still work, though.

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 16 November 2014 08:21:45AM 1 point [-]

we're not worried about the criterion being reverse-engineered?

I'm trying to think about ways that might potentially prevent reverse engineering...