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Irgy comments on Pascal's Mugging, Finite or Unbounded Resources? - Less Wrong Discussion

-1 Post author: Irgy 15 October 2015 04:01AM

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Comment author: Irgy 15 October 2015 10:39:40PM 0 points [-]

I'm not trying to ignore the problem I'm trying to progress it. If for example I reduce the mugging to just a non-special example of another problem, then I've reduced the number of different problems that need solving by one. Surely that's useful?