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faul_sname comments on Is Omega Impossible? Can we even ask? - Less Wrong Discussion

-8 Post author: mwengler 24 October 2012 02:47PM

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Comment author: faul_sname 25 October 2012 05:27:44PM 0 points [-]

Or at least your model of Eliezer models other people modeling his model of them. He may go one level deeper and model other people's model of his model of other people's model of his model of them, or (more likely) not bother and just use general heuristics. Because modeling breaks down around one or two layers of recursion most of the time.