hairyfigment comments on Breaking the vicious cycle - Less Wrong

43 Post author: XiXiDu 23 November 2014 06:25PM

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Comment author: dxu 25 November 2014 05:34:45AM 4 points [-]

Just out of curiosity, what do you mean when you say that Eliezer "trolled Wei Dai" (and other mathematicians)?

Comment author: hairyfigment 25 November 2014 06:21:04AM 5 points [-]
Comment author: somervta 19 January 2015 10:43:12AM 0 points [-]

Why was this trolling? This was in fact true, although Wei Dai's UDT ended up giving rise to a better framework for future and more general DT work.