Vulture comments on Solomonoff Cartesianism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vulture 15 April 2014 11:44:40PM 0 points [-]

Minor formal note: I have a mildly negative knee-jerk when someone repeatedly links to/promotes to something referred to only as "my _". Giving your formalism a proper name might make you sound less gratuitously self-promotional (which I don't think you are).

Comment author: Squark 17 April 2014 07:02:34PM 0 points [-]

Hi Vulture, thanks for your comment!

Actually I already have a name for the formalism: I call it the "updateless intelligence metric". My intuition was that referring to my own invention by the serious-sounding name I gave it myself would sound more pompous / self-promotional than referring to it as just "my formalism". Maybe I was wrong.