Ian_C. comments on Passing the Recursive Buck - Less Wrong

15 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 16 June 2008 04:50AM

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Comment author: Ian_C. 16 June 2008 12:12:26PM 0 points [-]

"The problem with this statement is that you don't define what you mean by sum."

I mean if you list all the actions that it's parts can do alone, the combined thing can have actions that aren't in that list.