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Vladimir_Nesov comments on Polarized gamma rays and manifest infinity - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 30 July 2011 11:10:10PM *  1 point [-]

I prefer to think that SI doesn't even have "beliefs" about the external universe, only beliefs about future observations.

A program can use logical theories that reason about abstract ideas that are not at all limited to finite program-like things. In this sense, SI can well favor programs that have beliefs about the world, including arbitrarily abstract beliefs, like beliefs about black-box halting oracles, and not just beliefs about observations.