On Saturday, July 08, 2023, at 2:32 PM, James Bowery wrote: > Here's the critical difference in a nutshell:
> Shannon Information regards the first billion bits of the number Pi to be > random. That is to say, there is no description of those bits in terms of > Shannon Information that is shorter than a billion bits. > Algorithmic Information regards the first billion bits of the number Pi to be > the shortest algorithm that outputs that precise sequence of bits. This writeup is very informative James and thanks for anticipating some questions before I had to ask them. AIT/AIC/AIXI is not inconsistent with my own research. Back around 1990 I spent a couple years in independent compression research and was unawares of AIT. The main research vector I ended up at was something I simply called mathematical compression, for lack of a better term. Now I’m still at the crossroads between lossy and lossless with exceptions to Ockham's Razor so your write-ups are very helpful… also coincidentally I’m personally struggling with the societal truth problems and AIC alignment does appear to be a valid approach to these contemporary issues. I do wonder though what criteria would be used to discern amongst various computable models of AIXI assuming there is spectrum of them. I already have a model for that but I wonder what the specialists in the field say... John ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Taf667527679b18c3-M07ac8bc039db1943c3cb4353 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
