Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Information theory and FOOM - Less Wrong

6 Post author: PhilGoetz 14 October 2009 04:52PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 October 2009 05:38:27PM 1 point [-]

That's not exactly Eliezer-approved, because now the real problem is to tell what the conditions are more like in nature - Worden or MacKay or somewhere in between. That's what I put up on the Wiki as summary of the state of information. Mathematical assumptions are cheaper than empirical truths.