Brad wrote: > I think this is a core principle of AGI design and that a system that > only makes inferences it *knows* are correct would be fairly > uninteresting and incapable of performing in the real world. The fact > that the information in the P(xi|xj) list is very incomplete is what > makes the problem interesting. > > Or maybe I'm misinterpreting your intent. > I agree perfectly with your "core principle", and my proposal was not to only make inferences that you know are correct. I think you may be misinterpreting: lets say that we know P(Xi), and want to guess at P(Xi|Xj). We have insufficient knowledge, so we need to make some assumptions to approximate P(Xi|Xj). I argue that under these circumstances, the best assumption to make is that Xi and Xj are independent, (ie, P(Xi|Xj)=P(Xi)). Does this clarify things?
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