Shane_Legg comments on Brief Break - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Shane_Legg 01 September 2008 11:42:38AM 0 points [-]

Toby:

Why not the standard approach of using Shannon's state x symbol complexity for Turing machines? If a reference machine has a very low state x symbol complexity then it is trivial to implement in our universe: we just need a few symbols, a few states, and a few transformation rules.