jimrandomh comments on False thermodynamic miracles - Less Wrong

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Comment author: jimrandomh 06 March 2015 01:25:35AM 3 points [-]

To adapt that design, assume Ω will run UDT/TDT agent A to get its estimation as to the likely probability of any one of 2^100 sequences of bits coming down the wire. It will then choose to send the signal that A assigns the lowest probability to. If there is a tie, it will choose the first sequence, lexicographically.

Any probability mass at all assigned to the hypothesis that the wire's sequence doesn't follow this rule, ends up breaking the scheme. Also, I think the AI can answer with probability distributions that are well defined, but for which this selection is intractable.