Dear Hal
At 1/18/02, you wrote:
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>I'm not convinced about the models of computation involving GTMs and
>such in Juergen Schmidhuber's paper. Basically these kinds of TMs can
>change their mind about the output, and the machine doesn't know when
>it is through changing its mind. So there
Wei writes:
> I think you probably misunderstood what you read. What's true is that
> universal priors based on different Turing machines are close to each
> other, up to a multiplicative factor that depends on the pair of universal
> priors being compared. But this multiplicative factor is not ne
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 07:07:47PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Another possibility is that mathematics says that there is really only
> one measure function, the universal measure, for all but an insignificant
> fraction of worlds. That is, all measure functions are arbitrarily
> c
Wei writes:
> This brings up the question: Which measure is evolution making us try to
> maximize? The answer is none. It only appears that way because people who
> try to maximize their measures according to some measure function will
> tend to have large measures according to that measure functi
I've started reading the new novel from SF writer David Brin, Kiln People.
He describes it at his web site, http://www.kithrup.com/brin/othersfbooks.html:
: Take the notion of golems-- temporary clay people (not clones!) -- and
: now imagine a near future when everybody can make them. Us
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