Re: reasoning under computational limitations

From: Nick Bostrom (bostrom@ndirect.co.uk)
Date: Mon Apr 05 1999 - 13:36:35 MDT


Wei Dai writes:

> This rules out the possibility of an infinite universe that does not
> repeat and does not have a prefered position

What is a preferred position? I suppose you could choose any position
and call it "preferred", but what would that prove?

>, but such a universe leads to
> various paradoxes so I don't think it can be logically consistent
> anyway.

What paradoxes do you have in mind?

Nick Bostrom
http://www.hedweb.com/nickb n.bostrom@lse.ac.uk
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
London School of Economics



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