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MattG comments on The Number Choosing Game: Against the existence of perfect theoretical rationality - Less Wrong Discussion

-1 Post author: casebash 29 January 2016 01:04AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 05 January 2016 04:09:52AM 0 points [-]

It's still some weird definitions of perfection when you're dealing with infinities or infinitesimals.

Comment author: casebash 05 January 2016 04:23:51AM 1 point [-]

Maybe it is weird, but nothing that can fairly be called perfection exists in this scenario, even if this isn't a fair demand.