Roland2 comments on The Born Probabilities - Less Wrong

16 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 01 May 2008 05:50AM

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Comment author: cousin_it 17 September 2009 07:24:03AM 0 points [-]

The Solomonoff prior depends on the encoding of algorithms, the Born rule doesn't. Or am I missing anything?

Comment author: Wei_Dai 17 September 2009 05:18:10PM 0 points [-]

That seems like a general argument against the whole Solomonoff Induction approach. I'd be happy to see the dependence on an encoding of algorithms removed, but until someone finds a way to do so, it doesn't seem to be a deal-breaker. I think my claim should apply to any encoding of algorithms one might use that isn't contrived specifically to make it false.