Nisan comments on Solomonoff Cartesianism - Less Wrong

21 Post author: RobbBB 02 March 2014 05:56PM

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Comment author: Cyan 05 March 2014 04:12:03PM *  1 point [-]

you and programs like you make up a small amount of measure in AIXI's beliefs

I understand that this is the claim, but my intuition is that, supposing that AIXI has observed a long enough sequence to have as good an idea as I do of how the world is put together, I and programs like me (like "naturalized induction") are the shortest of the survivors, and hence dominate AIXI's predictions. Basically, I'm positing that after a certain point, AIXI will notice that it is embodied and doesn't have a soul, for essentially the same reason that I have noticed those things: they are implications of the simplest explanations consistent with the observations I have made so far.

Comment author: Nisan 05 March 2014 07:10:28PM 1 point [-]

Oh, I see what you're saying now.