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ciphergoth comments on Naturalism versus unbounded (or unmaximisable) utility options - Less Wrong Discussion

34 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 01 February 2013 05:45PM

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Comment author: ciphergoth 02 February 2013 03:43:29PM 1 point [-]

What's your favourite computable fast-growing function these days?

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 February 2013 03:59:23PM 2 points [-]

I believe I understand ordinals up to the large Veblen ordinal, so the fast-growing hierarchy for that, plus 2, of 9, or thereabouts, would be the largest computable integer I could program without consulting a reference or having to think too hard. There are much larger computable numbers I can program if I'm allowed to use the Internet to look up certain things.