Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Brief Break - Less Wrong

3 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 31 August 2008 04:00PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 01 September 2008 07:16:55PM 0 points [-]

In our case, we are just looking for a canonical complexity measure for finite strings.

I see what you're saying, of course; but isn't that like saying that you only want a canonical measure of the length of a message, not its improbability?