Tom_McCabe2 comments on Searching for Bayes-Structure - Less Wrong

19 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 28 February 2008 10:01PM

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Comment author: Tom_McCabe2 28 February 2008 10:15:12PM 0 points [-]

So, we already have the underlying mathematical structure of the first half of cognition (determining the state of the world). What about the second half- influencing the world in a predictable way to achieve goals? We know that this is solvable, given enough computing power and omniscience- just dump the world data into a quantum simulator, run all possible modifications that the optimization process can make, and see which one has the highest expected utility (this, if I understand correctly, is basically what AIXI does).