Snowyowl comments on Frugality and working from finite data - Less Wrong

27 Post author: Snowyowl 03 September 2010 09:37AM

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Comment author: Snowyowl 03 September 2010 11:08:06PM *  0 points [-]

How do you come up with astrophysical theories in the first place? Ask a human, an AI, or just test every single computable possibility?

Comment author: Daniel_Burfoot 04 September 2010 01:19:59AM 1 point [-]

The compression method doesn't specify that part; this shouldn't be considered a weakness, since the traditional method doesn't either. Both methods depend on human intuition, strokes of genius, falling apples, etc.