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Comment author: JoshuaZ 28 January 2015 01:53:08PM 1 point [-]

Since you can find a utility function by randomly putting the agent into various universes and seeing what happens, it's computable.

Empirically determinable and computable are not the same thing. For example, consider the hypothetical of the Halting problem encoded in the digits of the fine structure constant.

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