atucker comments on Greg Egan and the Incomprehensible - Less Wrong

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Comment author: atucker 21 May 2011 01:27:40AM -1 points [-]

A singularity may be "comprehensible" in the sense that if I spent 10^100 times the lifetime of the universe writing in an unlimited supply of notebooks, I would eventually produce a pile of 10^10 notebooks containing something that might be called an understanding.

I think Hutter's work is about how "compression is intelligence". I can somewhat follow this post, but not on a deep technical level.