In 2003, Joe Weiss reviewed Stephen Wolfram's book A New Kind of Science.
Has this become the highest-ranking review of ALL books at Amazon?
2,447 of 2,553 people found it helpful:
The Emperor's New Kind of Clothes.
1 out of 5 stars:
On 11/03/11 09:39, Digital Physics wrote:
Send
Rummaging through the archives, I realized that a highly relevant
article by Marcus Hutter
apparently has not yet been discussed on this list, although many
have downloaded it:
Highly
Rummaging through the archives, I realized that a highly relevant article by
Marcus Hutter
apparently has not yet been discussed on this list, although many have
downloaded it:
A Complete Theory of Everything (Will Be Subjective)
Algorithms 2010, 3(4), 329-350; doi:10.3390/a3040329
Part of
hallucinations?
From: marc...@ulb.ac.be
To: everything-list@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: first person indeterminacy vs predictability
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 18:19:33 +0100
On 07 Mar 2011, at 17:26, Digital Physics wrote:
I agree that white rabbits have programs much shorter than those of random
But if most histories are equally likely, and most of them are random and
unpredictable
and weird in the sense that suddenly crocodiles fly by, then why can we predict
rather
reliably that none of those weird histories will happen?
From: marc...@ulb.ac.be
To:
: first person indeterminacy vs predictability
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 14:58:15 +0100
On 07 Mar 2011, at 10:47, Digital Physics wrote:But if most histories are
equally likely, and most of them are random and unpredictable and weird in the
sense that suddenly crocodiles fly by, then why can we
I agree that white rabbits have programs much shorter than those of random
structures.
It depends. Very short programs can generate all random structures.
You mean the short program that computes the entire set! But this is irrelevant
here: to predict a concrete individual history, we
7 matches
Mail list logo
