I don’t believe theists would have any problem with Solomonoff prior. Some ten-state two-symbol machine with a blank tape can be a God for all we could ever know, and then it could create us within it’s machine and do what ever it wants (and the souls could be just the indices it keeps on us).
You know who actually has problem with Solomonoff prior? People who understand it.
We’d want to know what proportion of ten-state two-symbol machines with blank tapes turned out to be gods.
Do we? I would think we would want to know what proportion of universes are created by ten-state two-symbol machines that are gods as opposed to ten-state two-symbol machines that are not gods.
Isn’t this the wrong question? We’d want to know what proportion of ten-state two-symbol machines with blank tapes turned out to be gods.
One short god will suffice if laws of physics require substantially larger program. And for all we know they do.
edit: Also, there’s only what, 20^10 = about 10 trillion possible ten state two symbol machines? Maybe 9 old British billions after you eliminate non-universal machines. That’s less than the data in physical constants we haven’t derived.
I don’t believe theists would have any problem with Solomonoff prior. Some ten-state two-symbol machine with a blank tape can be a God for all we could ever know, and then it could create us within it’s machine and do what ever it wants (and the souls could be just the indices it keeps on us).
You know who actually has problem with Solomonoff prior? People who understand it.
Isn’t this the wrong question? We’d want to know what proportion of ten-state two-symbol machines with blank tapes turned out to be gods.
In so far as that’s what we want, Catholicism still falls to being a huge conjunction of propositions.
Do we? I would think we would want to know what proportion of universes are created by ten-state two-symbol machines that are gods as opposed to ten-state two-symbol machines that are not gods.
That was implied by “proportion”.
One short god will suffice if laws of physics require substantially larger program. And for all we know they do.
edit: Also, there’s only what, 20^10 = about 10 trillion possible ten state two symbol machines? Maybe 9 old British billions after you eliminate non-universal machines. That’s less than the data in physical constants we haven’t derived.