Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on [Poll] Less Wrong and Mainstream Philosophy: How Different are We? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 26 September 2012 10:43:44PM 5 points [-]

Other: What the hell does Solomonoff Induction count as?

Comment author: gwern 26 September 2012 11:21:54PM 5 points [-]

I'd call it empirical, without a doubt: it's as 'unrational' as possible, since it admits every possible computable sequence and selection of which one is determined by observations. If that isn't empirical...

Comment author: Manfred 27 September 2012 07:58:42AM *  0 points [-]

But is "as un'rational' as possible" a'rational'?

Comment author: MugaSofer 27 September 2012 11:36:13AM 2 points [-]

I'd say rational, since it's a priori.