endoself comments on The mathematics of reduced impact: help needed - Less Wrong

10 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 16 February 2012 02:23PM

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Comment author: endoself 16 February 2012 10:25:19PM 0 points [-]

A direct measurement of the number of squares that are different isn't very informative, especially due to chaos theory. The issue of determinism is less important, I think. Unless the AI has unlimited computing power and knowledge of the entire state of the board, it will have to use probabilities to understand the world.