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hairyfigment comments on Proposal: Use logical depth relative to human history as objective function for superintelligence - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: hairyfigment 25 September 2014 07:57:06PM 0 points [-]

I'm still confused as to what D(u/h) means. It looks like it should refer to the number of logical steps you need to predict the state of the universe - exactly, or up to a certain precision - given only knowledge of human history up to a certain point. But then any event you can't predict without further information, such as the AI killing everyone using some astronomical phenomenon we didn't include in the definition of "human history", would have infinite or undefined D(u/h).