Chalybs_Levitas comments on Sorting Pebbles Into Correct Heaps - Less Wrong

75 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 August 2008 01:00AM

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Comment author: TGGP4 10 August 2008 02:58:13AM 4 points [-]

The whole history of civilization has shown that richer, smarter, better educated civilizations are more likely to agree about heaps that their ancestors disputed Are you saying there is in general more agreement among later civilizations so that disagreement should asymptotically approach zero? That would seem odd to me, because it conflicts with the fish, who have no disagreements at all. So then what does it mean?

Comment author: Chalybs_Levitas 19 November 2011 11:51:47AM 5 points [-]

The fish do not build heaps at all, and are therefore incapable of civilization or even meaningful disagreement on the correctness of heaps. So they should be excluded. (is what the PebbleSorter people might have thought)