I’m well aware of what Monte Carlo methods are (I work in computer graphics where those are used a lot), I’m also aware of what AIXI does.
Furthermore eli (and the “robots are going to kill everyone” group—if you’re new you don’t even know why they’re bringing up monte-carlo AIXI in the first place) are being hostile to TheAncientGeek.
edit: to clarify, Monte-Carlo AIXI is most assuredly not an AI which is inventing and applying some clever Monte Carlo methods to predict the environment. No, it’s estimating the sum over all predictors of environment with a random subset of predictors of environment (which doesn’t work all too well, and that’s why hooking it up to the internet is not going to result in anything interesting happening, contrary to what has been ignorantly asserted all over this site). I should’ve phrased it differently, perhaps—like “Do you even know what “monte carlo” means as applied to AIXI?”.
It is completely irrelevant how human-invented Monte-Carlo solutions behave, when the subject is hooking up AIXI to a server.
edit2: to borrow from your example:
″ Of course we haven’t discovered anything dangerously good at finding pi...”
“Of course we have, it’s called area of the circle. Do I need to download a Monte Carlo implementation from Github and run it… ”
“Do you even know what “monte carlo” means? It means it tries random points and checks if they’re in a circle. Even very stupid geometric methods do better.”
I’m well aware of what Monte Carlo methods are (I work in computer graphics where those are used a lot), I’m also aware of what AIXI does.
Furthermore eli (and the “robots are going to kill everyone” group—if you’re new you don’t even know why they’re bringing up monte-carlo AIXI in the first place) are being hostile to TheAncientGeek.
edit: to clarify, Monte-Carlo AIXI is most assuredly not an AI which is inventing and applying some clever Monte Carlo methods to predict the environment. No, it’s estimating the sum over all predictors of environment with a random subset of predictors of environment (which doesn’t work all too well, and that’s why hooking it up to the internet is not going to result in anything interesting happening, contrary to what has been ignorantly asserted all over this site). I should’ve phrased it differently, perhaps—like “Do you even know what “monte carlo” means as applied to AIXI?”.
It is completely irrelevant how human-invented Monte-Carlo solutions behave, when the subject is hooking up AIXI to a server.
edit2: to borrow from your example:
″ Of course we haven’t discovered anything dangerously good at finding pi...”
“Of course we have, it’s called area of the circle. Do I need to download a Monte Carlo implementation from Github and run it… ”
“Do you even know what “monte carlo” means? It means it tries random points and checks if they’re in a circle. Even very stupid geometric methods do better.”