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

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

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (210)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: [deleted] 12 July 2012 06:44:13AM 0 points [-]

My argument is not that that mental states/experiences/whatever are simple. The argument is: However complicated mental experiences might be, the following is true:

My mind is less complex than (my mind + the rest of the universe)

Even more so if i consider that the universerse entails a lot of minds that are as complex as my own.

By the way, i am not trying to prove solipsism, but to disprove solomonoff induction by reductio ad absurdum.

Comment author: private_messaging 12 July 2012 07:34:21AM *  1 point [-]

Take a very huge prime. It is less complex than the list of all primes, you would say. The shortest code to generate such prime may be the correct prime finding program that prints Nth prime (it stores the N of which prime to print), if the prime is big enough.