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Stuart_Armstrong comments on Probabilistic Löb theorem - Less Wrong Discussion

24 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 26 April 2013 06:45PM

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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 27 April 2013 06:52:11PM *  2 points [-]

Löb's theorem's means an agent cannot trust future copies of itself, or simply identical copies of itself, to only prove true statements.

Comment author: jsteinhardt 27 April 2013 07:05:54PM 1 point [-]

Er I don't think this is right. Lob's theorem says that an agent cannot trust future copies of itself, unless those future copies use strictly weaker axioms in their reasoning system.

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 27 April 2013 07:07:58PM 1 point [-]

The "can" has now been changed into "cannot". D'oh!