Incorrect comments on Open Problems Related to Solomonoff Induction - Less Wrong

27 Post author: Wei_Dai 06 June 2012 12:26AM

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Comment author: Incorrect 06 June 2012 02:00:46AM *  2 points [-]

Are you essentially saying Solomonoff Induction could be inferior to some other meta-algorithm (or whatever you call it) in uncomputable universes?

Comment author: Wei_Dai 06 June 2012 02:11:22AM *  5 points [-]

Yes. ETA: I'm also making the stronger point that any formalization of induction we can come up with would have a similar problem. (Or at least the kinds of formalizations covered by my arguments.)