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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 July 2010 10:39:14AM 9 points [-]

AIXI with a TM-based universal prior will always produce predictions about the black box, and predictions about the rest of the universe based on what the black box says, that are just as good as any prediction the human can come up with. After all, the human is in there somewhere. If you think of AIXI as embodying all computable ways of predicting the universe, rather than all computable models of the universe, you may begin to see that's not quite as narrow as you thought.

Comment author: cousin_it 27 July 2010 11:05:04AM *  3 points [-]

Yes, the human is in there somewhere, but so are many other, incorrect predictors. To adopt their predictions as its own, AIXI neds to verify them somehow, but how? (I'm very confused here and may be missing something completely obvious.)

ETA: yeah, this is wrong, disregard this.