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Sniffnoy comments on Asking Precise Questions - Less Wrong Discussion

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

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Comment author: Sniffnoy 06 January 2011 05:41:57AM 0 points [-]

Sorry, what exactly do you mean by this? It sounds like you're saying a question is only precisely formulated if it's decidable, which seems way too strong. Do you mean something more like, it's precisely formulated if it's a mathematically-formulated question about the outputs of a UTM on a given class of inputs?