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

-1 Post author: casebash 29 January 2016 01:04AM

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Comment author: casebash 06 January 2016 02:15:13PM 0 points [-]

Any finite universe will have a best such actor, but is even our universe finite? Besides, this was purposefully set in an infinite universe.

Comment author: Gurkenglas 06 January 2016 02:58:23PM *  0 points [-]

Finitely specified universe, not finite universe. That said, until the edit I had failed to realize that the diagonalization argument I used to disallow an infinite universe to contain an infinite hierarchy of finite actors doesn't work.