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JoshuaZ comments on The Value of Theoretical Research - Less Wrong Discussion

30 Post author: paulfchristiano 25 February 2011 06:06PM

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 27 February 2011 11:04:36PM 2 points [-]

That's a good point. I may be spending too much time on LW and thinking about decisions in an abstract setting where one expects all the simlar actors to act essentially the same way using TDT or UDT. Or that may just be a poor excuse for me not thinking.