Vaniver comments on An Intuitive Explanation of Solomonoff Induction - Less Wrong

53 Post author: Alex_Altair 11 July 2012 08:05AM

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Comment author: Vaniver 09 July 2012 05:13:01AM 9 points [-]

Turning it into a 'helmet on a stick' probe seems like the cleanest way to alter the story.

Comment author: palladias 11 July 2012 02:04:37PM 2 points [-]

Though, in Pratchett when someone tried that, the shooter had a pretty good model of how clever the soldier was, and shot at where someone would be lying to hold a helmet on a stick.