On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 3:32 PM Mike Archbold <[email protected]> wrote:
> James, > > Thanks for the lead. I know the general nature of AIXI but haven't read > the paper. Basically what you are arguing, I think, is that everything done > by a machine is a judgment, since ultimately it's only subjective. > I provided two senses of "subjective" and #1 contains within it the only notion of "objective" that may reasonably be applied to anything -- and it corresponds to Solomonoff Induction. So if you want to argue that you are doing something "objective" it must comport with that notion as formalized within AIXI. > So, we cannot readily distinguish "fact" from "judgment" in a machine > Yes we can in the sense of Hume's Guillotine and "objective" as described in: https://github.com/jabowery/HumesGuillotine and the point is argued by Brian Smith in "The Promise of AI Reckoning and > Judgment." > I don't know who Brian Smith is. I strongly suspect he's "in the weeds" I originally described. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T5edfab21647324f7-M9eabdcce266f9d1654074c6c Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
