Comment on An additional problem with Solomonoff induction

Thu, 23 Jan 2014 20:45:28 GMT

agree! Is that a problem? I expect that program to be less than a few hundred bits long

You see, this is why I kind of don't even want to bother ever discussing it any more. Ohh, I expect this, I expect that... on what basis, none whatsoever. It's hundreds bits merely to locate the camera, for god's sake. Let's say I expect a god in 50 bits, for the sake of argument.

edit: and by the way, for the laws of physics as we know them - non discrete - an exact representation is not even possible.

*a few hundred bits of evidence will take more than a few hundred bits of sensing data, unless the sensing data is incompressible.

Up to BusyBeaver(a few hundreds) bits of sensing data (edit: which is due to it being easy to set up codes that are identical until very many bits are outputted) .

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