gedymin comments on An additional problem with Solomonoff induction - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gedymin 23 January 2014 11:52:07AM 3 points [-]

You're right that it probably doesn't exist.

You're wrong that no one cares about it. Humans have a long history of caring about things that do not exist. I'm afraid that hypercomputation is one of those concepts that open the floodgates to bad philosophy.

My primary point is the confusion about randomness, though. Randomness doesn't seem to be magical, unlike other forms of uncomputability.