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wedrifid comments on Asking Precise Questions - Less Wrong Discussion

6 Post author: paulfchristiano 03 January 2011 08:48AM

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Comment author: wedrifid 03 January 2011 12:51:16PM 0 points [-]

A more serious objection is that there is no reason to believe that the shortest program solving these three tasks will be useful for you if you want to use it for a fourth task.

It could be rather handy if the fourth task involves, say cryptography.