Eugen Leitl wrote:
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 01:24:05PM -0500, Richard Loosemore wrote:
For each literary work n in N, use G to generate a universe u, and
within that universe, inject a copy of the literary work at a random
point in the spacetime of u. Measure the reaction, in terms of critical
acclaim generated by the work in any species who happen to be hanging
I realize that this is sarcasm, but detecting the mere presence
of a species (nevermind their critical acclaim) from a trajectory,
then rather give me the infinite simians, and I will personally look
for Shakespeare sonnets in them.
No, no wait! I change my mind about agreeing with you. ;-)
We don't have to wait for a species and then detect it, nor do we have
to translate their language!
We just apply each n to *all* of the infinite universes generated by G.
In amongst those universes will be some in which English (assuming
that n is defined over English words) just happens to arise by chance.
Then, all we do is compute the number of times that the name of the
literary work appears in the same sentence with "literary masterpiece,"
at any time in the history of all the universes.
I can't see any other problems: aside from the infinities, it looks
like a perfectly regular algorithm to me. As good as AIXI any day.
:-)
Richard Loosemore.
around the injection point (critical acclaim = number of times the work
is described in the language of that species as a "literary
Ah, now you want to extract language, too.
masterpiece", summed over the entire history of that universe). Compute
the critical acclaim density (using a measure theory of your choice) as
the injection point is varied randomly in an infinite set of universes.
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