Perhaps it does. The concept of "random" that people actually hold and use (outside of probability) is more about whether something has an explanation than about anything formal. Consider the following scenarios:
My program crashes, prints something about 8192. My program crashes, prints something about 10001. My program crashes, prints something about 3721. I've told you nothing about what that number had to do with, but I am pretty confident that you would consider the first two numbers worth investigating, and probably discard the last as "random", and you would be right to do so. On 2/5/07, gts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
One might ask what this means in terms of AGI. Should an AGI also regard 7 as about twice as random as any other digit? Or would that be irrational and inconsistent with probability theory? I would suppose little considerations like these would make the difference between 'robot-like' and 'human-like'...
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