shminux comments on Results from MIRI's December workshop - Less Wrong

45 Post author: Benja 15 January 2014 10:29PM

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Comment author: shminux 16 January 2014 05:30:04PM 0 points [-]

but you get the idea of what a probability over logical statements should mean

Not from your example, I do not. I suspect that if you remove this local Omega meme, you are saying that there are many different possible worlds in your inner simulator and in p*100% of them the conjecture ends up being proven... some day before that world ends. Unless you are a Platonist and assign mathematical "truths" independent immaterial existence.

Comment author: Benja 16 January 2014 11:23:51PM 0 points [-]

Retracted my comment for being unhelpful (I don't recognize what I said in what you heard, so I'm clearly not managing to explain myself here).

Comment author: shminux 17 January 2014 12:16:07AM 0 points [-]

Thanks for trying, anyway :)