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

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Comment author: Mitchell_Porter 07 June 2012 09:09:58PM *  2 points [-]

unless we knew how to model an uncomputable reality within a computable AGI-program

You could start out by trying to understand how an AI might invent the concept of uncomputability, and how it might then proceed to the possibility of uncomputable physics. And one way to get started here is by thinking as a cognitive historian, and asking how humans came up with the concept of uncomputability.