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buybuydandavis comments on Versions of AIXI can be arbitrarily stupid - Less Wrong Discussion

15 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 10 August 2015 01:23PM

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Comment author: buybuydandavis 27 August 2015 12:38:50AM 0 points [-]

There's another real point - focusing on your prior as "fit" to the problem/universe.

The space of possible priors Wolpert considered were very unlike our experience - basically imposing no topological smoothness on points - every point is a ball from the urn of possible balls. That's just not the way it is. Choosing your prior, and exploiting the properties of your prior then becomes the way to advance.