MBlume comments on Bead Jar Guesses - Less Wrong

17 Post author: Alicorn 04 May 2009 06:59PM

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Comment author: JulianMorrison 05 May 2009 02:41:09AM 0 points [-]

Thinking about how an Occamian learner like AIXI would approach the problem, it would probably start from the simplest domain theory "beads have a color, red is a color I've heard mentioned, therefore all beads are red", p=1. If the first bead was grey, it would switch to "all beads are grey", p=0. The second bead is red, "half and half", p = 0.5, and so on, ratcheting up theories from the simplest first.

Comment author: MBlume 05 May 2009 02:44:22AM 1 point [-]

red is a color I've heard mentioned, therefore all beads are red

and thus his bayes-score drops to -Infinity

Comment author: JulianMorrison 05 May 2009 06:25:22AM -1 points [-]

I don't think AIXI tries to maximize its Bayes score in one round - it tries to minimize the number of rounds until it converges on a good-enough model.