gedymin

The naïve way of understanding mind uploading is "we take the connectome of a brain, including synaptic connection weights and characters, and emulate it in a computer". However, people want their personalities to be uploaded, not just brains. That is more than just replicating the functionality of their brains in...

Let's continue from my previous post and look how Solomonoff induction fails to adequately deal with hypercomputation. You may have heard of the Physical Church-Turing thesis. It's the idea that the Universe can, in a perfect level of detail, be simulated on a Turing machine. (No problem if the Universe...

I've been trying to understand the uses and limitations of Solomonoff induction. Following the principle that in order to fully understand something you should explain it others, here's a try. I prefer to write such things in a form for dialogue, as that better reflects thought processes. This is not...