RE: [singularity] Scenarios for a simulated universe

2007-02-28 Thread Matt Mahoney
--- Mitchell Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is a good idea but some of the numbers seem wrong. In the first > scenario, the simulator is the computer connected to my brain (or the > software running on that computer, if you prefer); why should a synapse > count provide a good esti

RE: [singularity] Scenarios for a simulated universe

2007-02-28 Thread Mitchell Porter
This is a good idea but some of the numbers seem wrong. In the first scenario, the simulator is the computer connected to my brain (or the software running on that computer, if you prefer); why should a synapse count provide a good estimate of its complexity? And the complexity of scenario fi

[singularity] Scenarios for a simulated universe

2007-02-28 Thread Matt Mahoney
As you probably know, Hutter proved that the optimal behavior of a goal seeking agent in an unknown environment (modeled as a pair of interacting Turing machines, with the enviroment sending an additional reward signal to the agent that the agent seeks to maximize) is for the agent to guess at e