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shokwave comments on two puzzles on rationality of defeat - Less Wrong Discussion

4 Post author: fsopho 12 December 2011 02:17PM

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Comment author: shokwave 14 December 2011 06:36:56AM 0 points [-]

It's just that logical omniscience is required to quickly identify the (pre-determined) truth value of incredibly complicated mathematical equations; if you want to exploit my not knowing the thousandth mersenne prime, you have to know the thousandth mersenne prime to do so, and humans generally don't encounter beings that have significantly more logical knowledge.