JGWeissman comments on Does Solomonoff always win? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JGWeissman 23 February 2011 11:46:48PM 1 point [-]

Game 1 is designed to test epistemologies as epistemologies, without considering any decision theories that use that epistemology. Figuring out a good decision theory is harder. What game 3 shows is that even starting with an ideal epistemology, you can't build a decision theory that outperforms all others in all environments.