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Comment author: paulfchristiano 03 January 2011 08:06:03PM 1 point [-]

One approach---in the post---is to interpret a program as a scoring measure, and the "question" is to find an input that scores well.

I don't really care if you use that particular UTM, or some other UTM, or some other programming language, or a tractable mathematical definition, because they are all the same modulo the constant effort required to translate (which seems to be within human reach, if only barely, at this point).