I occasionally wonder if this forum is a testbed for AGI text generators under development in various labs.
On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 7:15 PM James Bowery <jabow...@gmail.com> wrote: > In Solomonoff Induction the smallest program outputting observations up to > the present point in time will continue to output _future_ observations as > optimal predictions. > > These future observations may be thought of as missing data for which > optimal imputations are the output. > > In ordinary statistical imputation, there is a table of potential > observations, not all of which have been made in all attributes (columns) > of all cases (rows). These are represented by a special symbol indicating > no data (such as "n/a") in the corresponding cells. In the case of a pure > time series imputation, such as Solomonoff induction, the entire future is > present as something equivalent to "missing data".* > > In the case of supplanting statistics used by the social sciences with > Solomonoff induction, rather than a linear tape going off into the future, > one has a spatial dimension representing simultaneity. In this event model > selection based on lossless compression must not disqualify a model > (self-extracting archive of minimal length) for failing to reproduce the > symbols representing missing data and, instead, producing imputations. > > > *An aside is that an intelligent observer is inducing a model of not just > any future old future observations but a particular observer's decision > process about what it will next observe, which means, interestingly, an > imputed value function for sequential decision theory. This means there is > no way to escape from AIXI, even if one tries to strip off the sequential > decision mechanism. > > *Artificial General Intelligence List <https://agi.topicbox.com/latest>* > / AGI / see discussions <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi> + > participants <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/members> + delivery > options <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription> Permalink > <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T36c83eb0aa31fc55-Ma73be751a158f74717b7908b> > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T36c83eb0aa31fc55-M29422405c4d0d0b3f8cadf0b Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
