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In response to comment by [deleted] on An Intuitive Explanation of Solomonoff Induction

Comment author: hankx7787 12 July 2012 02:01:01AM * 1 point [-]

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In response to comment by hankx7787 on An Intuitive Explanation of Solomonoff Induction

Comment author: naasking 08 March 2013 03:03:30PM -1 points [-]

(simplicity of the map) alone is sufficient to judge a theory- you also need to take into account the theory's parsimony (simplicity of the territory).

Solomonoff Induction gauges a theory's parsimony via Kolmogorov complexity, which is a formalization of Occam's razor. It's not a naive measurement of simplicity.

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In response to comment by shminux on An Intuitive Explanation of Solomonoff Induction

Comment author: private_messaging 09 July 2012 09:42:29AM * -1 points [-]

We can already do MWI vs Collapse without being clear on F=ma. MWI is not even considered because MWI does not output a string that begins with the observed data, i.e. MWI will never be found when doing Solomonoff induction. MWI's code may be a part of correct code, such as Copenhagen interpretation (which includes MWI's code). Or something else may be found (my bet is on something else because general relativity). It is this bloody simple.

The irony is, you can rule MWI out with Solomonoff induction without even choosing the machine or having a halting oracle. Note: you can't rule out existence of many worlds. But MWI simply does not provide the right output.

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In response to comment by private_messaging on An Intuitive Explanation of Solomonoff Induction

Comment author: naasking 08 March 2013 03:01:13PM -3 points [-]

MWI is not even considered because MWI does not output a string that begins with the observed data, i.e. MWI will never be found when doing Solomonoff induction.

The same observed that produced Copenhagen and de Broglie-Bohm produced MWI. You acknowledge as much when you state that Copenhagen extends MWI with more axioms. The observation string for MWI is then identical to Copenhagen, and there is no reason to select Copenhagen as preferred.