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

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Comment author: Baughn 09 July 2013 09:33:16AM *  0 points [-]

I was going for "Matches what the universe is actually doing", whether that means setting it equal to the apparent laws of physics or to something like a dovetailer.

Sure, there's no way of being sure we've figured out the correct rule; doesn't mean there isn't one.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 10 July 2013 02:23:54AM 0 points [-]

In other words it's the prior that's 1 on the actual universe and 0 on everything else.

Comment author: Baughn 10 July 2013 10:58:15AM 0 points [-]

Sure. A little hard to determine, fair enough.