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gwern comments on Muehlhauser-Goertzel Dialogue, Part 1 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: gwern 19 March 2012 08:44:00PM 0 points [-]

By the way, did you ever actually do the utilitarian calculations re Nazi Germany's health policies? Might you share the results?

I was going off a library copy, and thought of it only afterwards; I keep hoping someone else will do it for me.

But Schmidhuber argues that certain generalized computers can enumerate bits of omega very easily, which is why he developed the idea of a super-omega.

His jargon is a little much for me. I agree one can approximate Omega by enumerating digits, but what is 'very easily' here?