Cyan2 comments on Qualitatively Confused - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Cyan2 15 March 2008 04:28:33PM 0 points [-]

Sebastian Hagen,

I'm a "logical omniscience" kind of Bayesian, so the distinction you're making falls into the "in theory, theory and and practice are the same, but in practice, they're not" category. This is sort of like using Turing machines as a model of computation even though no computer we actually use has infinite memory.