JoshuaZ comments on I Stand by the Sequences - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Logos01 16 May 2012 06:20:21AM 0 points [-]

Not all formalizations that give the same observed predictions have the same Kolmogorov complexity, and this is true even for much less rigorous notions of complexity.

Sure. But MWI and CI use the same formulae. They take the same inputs and produce the same outputs.

Everything else is just that -- interpretation.

One simple thing it could do is simply use trial division. But another could use some more complicated process, like say brute force searching for a generator of (Z/pZ)*.

And those would be different calculations.

In this case, the math being used is pretty similar,

No, it's the same math.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 16 May 2012 03:28:09PM *  -2 points [-]

The interpretation in this context can imply unobserved output. See the discussion with dlthomas below. Part of the issue is that the interpretation isn't separate from the math.

Comment author: Logos01 17 May 2012 01:10:32PM -2 points [-]

"Entities must not be replicated beyond necessity". Both interpretations violate this rule. The only question is which violates it more. And the answer to that seems to one purely of opinion.

So throwing out the extra stuff -- they're using exactly the same math.