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Comment author: MrMind 30 December 2014 04:20:47PM *  0 points [-]

A list of ramblings that could prove useful in extending Solomonoff Induction, or that could well be all false:

  • Kolmogorov complexity is a way to assign to each explanation a natural number

  • assigning a natural number to a program is a way to pidgeon-hole the totality of programs to a well ordered countable set, in such a way that no pidgeon-hole has infinite pidgeons in it

  • if every partion of k^n in m parts has an homogeneous set of size j, then k --> j^n_m

  • let w be omega, n, m finite, then w --> w^n_m (Ramsey theorem)

  • w -/-> w^n_w, on this you can construct Solomonoff induction: partition the set of explanation in such a way that no group of explanation is infinite, then every hypothesis has measure 1/k2^-n, where k is the cardinality of the group and n is the position of the group's pidgeon-hole. No notion of complexity is needed, although complexity is a way to partition explanations

  • but also 2^k -/-> w^2_k, for every cardinal k.

  • This means 2^w -/-> w^2_w, so you could make SI work on infinite explanations too

  • extend to every k --> j^n_m so that j and m are measurable