timtyler comments on AIXI and Existential Despair - Less Wrong

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Comment author: cousin_it 09 December 2011 02:15:15AM *  0 points [-]

This is totally awesome. Today is a good day on LW, first Stuart's result and now yours.

Funny, a couple weeks ago I wrote a comment explaining why Schmidhuber's Gödel machines probably don't work either, but I guess people didn't notice it or considered it too obviously wrong. What do you think?

Comment author: timtyler 09 December 2011 02:01:40PM *  1 point [-]

I wrote a comment explaining why Schmidhuber's Gödel machines probably don't work either

I'm not sure about that billing - the comment seems to give up before much of a conclusion gets drawn.

Gödel machines are like GAs. The problem is not so much that they don't work at all - but rather that they may work too slowly.