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ChristianKl 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: ChristianKl 05 January 2016 10:39:57PM 2 points [-]

No. It just says that perfect decisionmakers can't exist in a world that violates basic physics by allowing people to state even bigger numbers without spending additional time. It doesn't say that perfect decisionmakers can't exist in a world that operates under the physics under which our world operates.

The fact that you can constructe possible world in which there are no perfect decisionmakers isn't very interesting.

Comment author: casebash 05 January 2016 11:23:32PM 1 point [-]

"World that violates basic physics" - well the laws of physics are different in this scenario, but I keep the laws of logic the same, which is something.

"The fact that you can constructe possible world in which there are no perfect decisionmakers isn't very interesting."

Maybe. This is just part 1 =P.