> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Bromer via AGI <[email protected]>
> 
> "Randomness" is merely computational distance from agent perspective."
> 
> That is really interesting but why the fixation on the particular
> fictionalization?  Randomness is computation distance from the agent
> perspective?  No it isn't. 

Jim,

OK, what then is between a compression agents perspective (or any agent for 
that matter) and randomness? Including shades of randomness to relatively 
"pure" randomness.


> I will have to give up trying but you are not merely using
> (specialized) linguistic reference markers. What you are saying makes enough
> sense to me to want to think about it but the noise makes it more difficult to
> understand. So yeah, I can see how randomness within a relative constraint
> system might be related to computational distance - especially from [your
> perspective[ of the agent's perspective. But even if I accept that as a
> reasonable view, you later made this remarkable statement: "it's an operation
> not a number or data point until you reach a boundary of thermodynamic
> expense being a compressor agent in a virtualized escapism pulled back to
> finite entropic reality."
> 

>From an information theoretic (and thermodynamic) viewpoint in your mind what 
>happens when you see the symbol for infinity? Semi-quantitatively describe the 
>thought processes?

John






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