Zubon comments on Ethics Notes - Less Wrong
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Will, should we presume that this point has a further point, that such cases are inevitable so the system should never boot up? I do not know if it is possible to run without ever deleting anything, but no one has ever used the exact value of pi.
I might note that we consider some deletions and approximation normal and proper. You may not remember what you were doing yesterday at exactly 12:07pm, but I still trust you not to forget which pedal on the car makes it stop.