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Comment author: timtyler 06 June 2011 08:17:20PM *  0 points [-]

A lot of people have a problem with Kolmogorov complexity and Solomonoff induction being "ideals". [...] Instead, accept that the ideal can only be approximated in reality and that the better we can approximate it the better we are doing.

That doesn't sound like a very serious problem with these things being "ideals".

Ideals don't have to be attainable.