Eugine_Nier comments on Estimating the kolmogorov complexity of the known laws of physics? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 09 July 2013 04:50:59AM 0 points [-]

"empirically not the optimal prior we can use with a small amount of computation"

I'm not even sure that makes sense since if this is based on empirical observations, presumable there was some prior prior that was updated based on those observations.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 09 July 2013 04:55:45AM 0 points [-]

Well, they could be using a set of distinct priors (say 5 or 6 of them) and then noting over time which set required less major updating in general, but I don't think this is what is going on either. We may need to just wait for Baughn to clarify what they meant.