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

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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.