Nate_Barna2 comments on Grasping Slippery Things - Less Wrong

19 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 17 June 2008 02:04AM

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Comment author: Nate_Barna2 17 June 2008 09:49:08PM 0 points [-]

Eliezer, if you became Reality, if you were as such a causa sui closed system, and if you were still able to change (or transcend yourself), then you might prefer analyzing various abstract choices of how to induct yourself without being able to predict in advance how you would, to trivially riding the wave of a fixed algorithmic complexity. If so, it doesn't seem this possibilistic idea of Be Acquainted Only With The Necessary would be much help.