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Comment author: Lumifer 22 December 2015 04:31:23PM 0 points [-]

French pastries (preferably from a Japanese/Korean pastry shop) are better than Solomonoff induction -- they are yummier.

Comment author: MrMind 24 December 2015 10:28:48AM 1 point [-]

Ha, but a robot programmed with a Solomonoff induction-like software will learn to do French pastries long before pastries will learn how to do Solomonoff induction!

Comment author: Lumifer 28 December 2015 04:07:45PM 0 points [-]

robot programmed with a Solomonoff induction-like software will learn to do French pastries long before pastries will learn how to do Solomonoff induction!

French pastries correspond to a pretty long bit-string so you may have to wait for a very long time (and eat a lot of very bad possibly-pastries in the meantime :-P). A physicist can learn to make pastries much quicker.

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