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Luke_A_Somers comments on Consistent extrapolated beliefs about math? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 04 September 2014 10:55:32PM 3 points [-]

Okay. If I want to know something about marbles and someone begins invoking infinities, that raises a yellow flag for me.

If I want to know about the asymptotic behavior of an algorithm, then no such flag is raised.