On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 01:45:11PM -0400, Stephen P. King wrote: > On 10/22/2012 2:32 AM, Russell Standish wrote: > >On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 11:38:46PM -0400, Stephen P. King wrote: > >>Hi Rusell, > >> > >> How does Schmidhuber consider the physicality of resources? > >> > >>-- > >>Onward! > >> > >>Stephen > >No. The concept doesn't enter consideration. What he considers is that > >the Great Programmer has finite (or perhaps bounded resources), which > >gives an additional boost to algorithms that run efficiently. > > > Hi Russell, > > OK, so does Schmidhuber advocating an immaterialist ontology, as > Bruno? I need to read the paper again, it has been a long time... > > -- > Onward! > > Stephen
Schmidhuber does not consider ontology at all. He merely asks the question "What if we're living inside a universal dovetailer?". He doesn't ask what the machine running the dovetailer is made of, nor what the programmer that sets the machine is motion is made of. These can be taken as literal or figurative as one likes, as they have no impact on the conclusions. In his second paper, he considers the question, what if the great programmer has limited resources? I'm not sure I really follow him there - a dovetailer running on a finitely resourced machine is no longer universal. Also, computational runtimes should be invisible to the denizens of the computation, as Bruno points out in his UDA. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
