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Stuart_Armstrong comments on Anti-Pascaline satisficer - Less Wrong Discussion

3 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 14 April 2015 06:49PM

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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 17 April 2015 03:10:27PM 1 point [-]

It is not clear to me why your increasingly paranoid bug probes would involve making paperclips.

It need not. The problem occurs for any measure that burns resources (and probing the universe for bugs in the Descartes demon would be spectacular at burning resources).