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Fhyve comments on A Pragmatic Epistemology - Less Wrong Discussion

2 Post author: StephenR 05 August 2014 05:43AM

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Comment author: Fhyve 05 August 2014 06:02:25PM 0 points [-]

The computable algorithm isn't a meta-model though. It's just you in a different substrate. It's not something the agent can run to figure out what to do because it necessarily take more computing power. And there is nothing preventing such a pragmatic agent from having a universe-model that is computable, considering finding a computable algorithm approximating itself, and copying that algorithm over and over.