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

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 25 July 2012 03:35:41AM *  3 points [-]

The entire point of induction is to open up, and deduction is to close down, so I would not get too excited about Solominoff's attempt at limiting induction to some kind of deductive certainty.

This seems wrong, see Lawful intelligence, Free will.

Comment author: D_Malik 05 August 2012 01:22:55AM 1 point [-]

The first part of the quote (before "so") seems right - induction generates hypotheses, and deduction destroys them (for loose definitions of in/deduction). One way to see Solomonoff induction is that we first "open up" as far as possible, by generating all possible hypotheses, and then use deduction to "close down", by throwing away all the invalid hypotheses.