MichaelVassar comments on The I-Less Eye - Less Wrong

30 Post author: rwallace 28 March 2010 06:13PM

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Comment author: MichaelVassar 08 April 2010 08:24:49AM 5 points [-]

Upvoted, but the Boltzmann problem is that it casually looks like the vast majority of subpatterns that match a given description ARE Boltzmann Brains. After all, maxentropy is forever.

Comment author: rwallace 11 October 2010 03:52:37PM 2 points [-]

But so is eternal inflation, so we are comparing infinities of the same cardinality. The solution seems to be that the Kolmogorov complexity of a typical Boltzmann brain is high, because its space-time coordinates have a length in bits exceeding the length of the description of the brain itself; by Solomonoff induction, we can therefore assign them a very low measure, even in total.