khafra comments on MIRI's 2013 Summer Matching Challenge - Less Wrong

23 Post author: lukeprog 23 July 2013 07:05PM

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Comment author: khafra 09 August 2013 10:10:38PM 12 points [-]

Donated 0.9766578425 bitcoins, a number I chose since that's Chaitin's Omega for the shortest FAI.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 August 2013 03:27:23AM 5 points [-]

(Consults Inverse Chaitin function in Wolfram Alpha.)

Actually, is there a definition of Chaitin's Omega for particular programs? I thought it was just for universal Turing machines, or program classes with a measure on them anyway.

Comment author: khafra 11 August 2013 02:57:41AM 2 points [-]

Whoops, that's right. I, ah, may have just unleashed a trolly AI.

Comment author: endoself 18 October 2013 11:16:23PM 1 point [-]

Yes, you can take the probability that they will halt given a random input. This is analogous to the case of a universal Turing machine, since the way we ask it to simulate a random Turing machine is by giving it a random input string.

Comment author: khafra 18 October 2013 10:41:09PM 1 point [-]

Dangit, I should've said "the FAI is Turing-complete, you can carry out arbitrary computations simply by running it in carefully selected universes."

With a five orders of magnitude improvement in timing, I could be witty.

Comment author: nshepperd 10 August 2013 03:53:36AM 2 points [-]

Is that the probability that the shortest FAI halts given random input?

Comment author: lukeprog 10 August 2013 01:37:13AM 1 point [-]

Thanks!