Dan_Moore comments on Kevin T. Kelly's Ockham Efficiency Theorem - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Daniel_Burfoot 16 August 2010 08:21:17PM 8 points [-]

Kolmogorov complexity also depends on the description language used to create strings.

The whole point of the KC is that it doesn't depend on the specific programming language (or Turing machine) selected except up to an additive constant. If your language contains a recursive feature, it will assign lower complexity to Fibonacci numbers than my non-recursive language does, but the difference is at most the codelength required for me to simulate your machine on my machine.

Comment author: Dan_Moore 17 August 2010 01:34:34PM *  0 points [-]

I see. Thanks.

Question: How many bits does adding a recursive feature take up?