What if my program was created by quantum evolutionary learning, and carries out its predictions while running in an uncollapsed quantum state, coupled with the classical system reading-out its predictions in a way that doesn't collapse its internal memory states...
Then I can set it up so you can't measure what algorithm my program is running *without collapsing the state, which I could notice* -- and even if you emulated my process of quantum evolutionary learning, you couldn't tell what random program it had produced for me. So your approach doesn't work for quantum computers... but our physical universe is a quantum system... -- Ben On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 9:08 AM Matt Mahoney <mattmahone...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Suppose you have a simple learner that can predict any computable sequence of > symbols with some probability at least as good as random guessing. Then I can > create a simple sequence that your predictor will get wrong 100% of the time. > My program runs a copy of your program and outputs something different from > your guess. > > All the empirical evidence supports this. Good compressors have a lot of code > to handle lots of special cases. > > On Fri, Aug 9, 2019, 8:15 PM Ben Goertzel <b...@goertzel.org> wrote: >> >> >> >>> >>> >>> Legg proved there is no such thing as a simple, universal learner. So we >>> can stop looking for one. >> >> >> >> To be clear, these algorithmic information theory results don't show there >> is no such thing as a simple learner that is universal in our physical >> universe... >> >> I'm not saying there necessarily is one, just pointing out that the math is >> not so practically applicable as your statement implies... >> > Artificial General Intelligence List / AGI / see discussions + participants + > delivery options Permalink -- Ben Goertzel, PhD http://goertzel.org “The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.” -- Jack Kerouac ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T1ff21f8b11c8c9ae-M64769f2ee7e69bc4f2f7caea Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
