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Manfred comments on A Thought on Pascal's Mugging - Less Wrong Discussion

12 Post author: komponisto 10 December 2010 06:08AM

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Comment author: Manfred 11 December 2010 11:11:29PM *  0 points [-]

Ah shoot, I read this post, and then I read SewingMachine's post, and then I realized my reply to this post was wrong.

Comment author: [deleted] 11 December 2010 11:22:57PM 2 points [-]

The Kolmogorov complexity of one bad thing repeated N times grows like log(N)

I'll repeat my other comment. log(N) is an upper bound for the complexity of N, but complexity of N can be much smaller. Complexity of 3^^^3 is tiny compared to log(3^^^3).

Comment author: Manfred 11 December 2010 11:25:40PM 0 points [-]

Oh, you totally got ninja'd.