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Squark comments on Anatomy of Multiversal Utility Functions: Tegmark Level IV - Less Wrong Discussion

15 Post author: Squark 07 February 2015 04:28PM

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Comment author: Squark 11 February 2015 08:11:51PM *  2 points [-]

What you're saying can be rephrased as follows. The prior probability measure on the space of (possibly rule-violating) Game of Life histories depends on f since it is the f-image of the Solomonoff measure. You are right. However, the dependence is as strong as the dependence of the Solomonoff measure on the choice of a universal Turing machine.

In other words, the complexity of the f you need to make G take a silly action is about the same as the complexity of the universal Turing machine you need to make G take the same action.