timtyler comments on Dreams of AIXI - Less Wrong

-1 Post author: jacob_cannell 30 August 2010 10:15PM

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Comment author: timtyler 01 September 2010 07:41:41AM 1 point [-]

In other words, there is no free lunch, there is no shortcut, if you really want to build something in this world, you can't be certain 100% that it will work until you actually build it.

You can't be 100% certain even then. Testing doesn't produce certainty - you usually can't test every possible set of input configurations.