This is a pretty lame attitude towards mathematics. If William Rowan Hamilton showed you his discovery of quaternions, you’d probably scoff and say “yeah, but what can that do for ME?”.
Occam’s razor has been a guiding principal for science for centuries without having any proof for why it’s a good policy, Now Solomonoff comes along and provides a proof and you’re unimpressed. Great.
SI is so bad, it doesn’t even prove the one thing people say it proves.
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The S.I is a inept tool for measuring the relative complexity of CI and MWI because it is a bad match for both. It’s a bad match for MWI because of the linear, or., if you prfer sequential, nature of the output tape, and its a bad match for CI because its deterministic and CI isn’t. You can simulate collapse with a PRNG, but it won’t give you the right random numbers. Also, CI’ers think collapse is a fundamental process, so it loads the dice to represent it with a multi-step PRNG. It should be just a call to one RAND instruction to represent their views fairly.
… and then it becomes incomputable in both theory perfectly (even given unbounded resources) and in practice via any kind of realistic approximation.
It’s a dead end. The only interesting thing about it is realizing why precisely it is a dead end.
This is a pretty lame attitude towards mathematics. If William Rowan Hamilton showed you his discovery of quaternions, you’d probably scoff and say “yeah, but what can that do for ME?”.
Occam’s razor has been a guiding principal for science for centuries without having any proof for why it’s a good policy, Now Solomonoff comes along and provides a proof and you’re unimpressed. Great.
SI is so bad, it doesn’t even prove the one thing people say it proves.
Edit:
The S.I is a inept tool for measuring the relative complexity of CI and MWI because it is a bad match for both. It’s a bad match for MWI because of the linear, or., if you prfer sequential, nature of the output tape, and its a bad match for CI because its deterministic and CI isn’t. You can simulate collapse with a PRNG, but it won’t give you the right random numbers. Also, CI’ers think collapse is a fundamental process, so it loads the dice to represent it with a multi-step PRNG. It should be just a call to one RAND instruction to represent their views fairly.