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2 Post author: Thomas 26 June 2011 12:11PM

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Comment author: gwern 27 June 2011 01:17:15PM 0 points [-]

It would be quite impressive if it were able to...

My point was that Legg has shown, as I understand it, that any powerful prediction algorithm which is powerful enough to predict most/all of the universe (as one would expect a fearsome AGI to able to do) will be at least as complex as the universe it's predicting.