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The person you're replying to meant "is intuitive to us" when they said "making sense". As for systems where it's hard to come up with a complete and consisten
by Strilanc 12y ago
The person you're replying to meant "is intuitive to us" when they said "making sense".
As for systems where it's hard to come up with a complete and consistent model...
- If coin flips were decided by a cryptographic random number generator, it would be intractable for us to extract the seed or even to distinguish the output from true randomness or go-both-ways indexical uncertainty.
- Probably-approximate-correct learning is not possible for all models [1].
- If we're unable to eliminate Boltzmann brains [2] from cosmological predictions, that would seem to imply agents should constantly assign near-certainty to being surrounded by heat death and ignoring that is more of an optimization-for-the-cases-where-you're-not-and-things-matter.
- If the number of rules is larger than the number of atoms in the universe, we're never going to be able to remember them all or write them all down.
1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probably_approximately_correct_learning http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probably_approximately_correct_...
2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain