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

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Comment author: Squark 27 January 2014 07:10:13PM 0 points [-]

You are right, in principle we can consider generalized SI for various hypercomputation models. In practice, SI is supposed to be a probability distribution over "testable hypotheses". Since testing a hypothesis involves some sort of computation, it doesn't seem to make sense to include uncomputable oracles. It would make sense for agents that are able to hypercompute themselves.