stanislavzza

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   by stanislavzza 4mo ago

   Straight out of Life Artificial...
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   by stanislavzza 1y ago

   This is pedantic, but I don't like the formulation of entropy as sum of p log(1/p). I think of log(p) as information of a single event, for which log base 1/2 gives the answer in bits. This makes the negative sign unnecessary
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   by stanislavzza 3y ago

   It's not just crashing/halting. See Rice's Theorem. The machine can't predict its own future behavior in most ways that are important. I'm not an expert in this stuff, and my point was that a serious treatment of su
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   by stanislavzza 3y ago

   (not OP) It's been a while, but if I recall correctly NB didn't address the technical limitations of Turing machines, e.g. the halting problem. How is a machine supposed to make itself smarter when it can't predict that it wo