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lessdazed comments on Safe questions to ask an Oracle? - Less Wrong Discussion

2 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 27 January 2012 06:33PM

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Comment author: lessdazed 27 January 2012 08:08:56PM *  1 point [-]

Consuming no more than 100 kWh of energy (gross, total), answer the following question: ...

This doesn't seem to build the possibly necessary infinite tower of resource restrictions. There has to be a small, finite amount of resources used in the process of answering the question, and verifying that no more resources that that were used for it, and verifying that no more resources were used for the verification, and verifying that no more resources than that were usd for the verification of the verification...

Comment author: novalis 27 January 2012 09:24:45PM 2 points [-]

An upper bound for many search techniques can trivially be computed without any need for infinite regress.