Really? I read enough of that thesis to add it to the pile of “papers about fully generally learning programs with no practical use or insight into general intelligence”.
Though I did get one useful insight from Shalizi’s thesis: that I should judge complexity by the program length needed to produce something functionally equivalent, not something exactly identical, as that metric makes more sense when judging complexity as it pertains to real-world systems and their entropy.
Really? I read enough of that thesis to add it to the pile of “papers about fully generally learning programs with no practical use or insight into general intelligence”.
Though I did get one useful insight from Shalizi’s thesis: that I should judge complexity by the program length needed to produce something functionally equivalent, not something exactly identical, as that metric makes more sense when judging complexity as it pertains to real-world systems and their entropy.