Roko comments on Complexity of Value ≠ Complexity of Outcome - Less Wrong

32 Post author: Wei_Dai 30 January 2010 02:50AM

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Comment author: timtyler 30 January 2010 08:56:50PM *  -1 points [-]

Kolmogorov complexity is fine by me.

What make you say that? It isn't right.

Filling the universe with orgasmium involves interstellar and intergalactic travel, stellar farming, molecular nanotechnology, coordinating stars to leap between galaxies, mastering nuclear fusion, conquering any other civilisations it might meet along the way - and many other complexity-requiring activities.

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Comment author: timtyler 31 January 2010 11:47:02AM *  0 points [-]

Indeed - sorry! The r-pentomino's evolution is not a good example of high Kolmogorov complexity - though as you say, it is complex in other senses.

I had forgotten that I gave that as one of my examples when I retroactively assented to the use Kolmogorov complexity as a metric.