kithpendragon comments on The Number Choosing Game: Against the existence of perfect theoretical rationality - Less Wrong

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Comment author: kithpendragon 06 January 2016 11:11:22AM 0 points [-]

"Not realistic" isn't my objection here so much as "moving the goalpost". The original post (as I recall it from before the edit), made no claim that there was zero cost in specifying arbitrarily large/specific numbers, nor in participating in arbitrarily large numbers of swaps.

Comment author: casebash 06 January 2016 11:30:02AM *  0 points [-]

It's been like that from the start. EDIT: I only added in extra clarification.

Comment author: kithpendragon 06 January 2016 11:42:05AM 0 points [-]

I certainly make no claims about the perfect quality of my memory. ;)