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First, "Well, at some point somebody's going to have to figure out" how to partition the issue into manageable chunks. Like, what would be some of the very first steps?
Invent a model of a sequential learning algorithm that has access to its own source code and can rewrite it in some way -- in short, the model should consider itself part of "its world," in contrast to the way AIXI isn't. Giving it an explicit reward channel is probably a bad idea.
Prove that algorithm learns sequences in some optimal or nearly optimal sense.
Develop approximate algorithms that are actually computable if the resulting algorithm fails to be.
This is so far my expertise domain that I hesitate to open up any of these black boxes any further.
What would be the first step in doing that? Alternatively, is it really the first step?
You have the essential training in math research. This makes you at least as qualified as probably anyone on the SI staff.
You flatter me. My training is in medical imaging and inverse problems, not logic and machine learning. I've probably spent a total of eight hours thinking about sequence learning algorithms in my life.