--- On Sat, 10/25/08, Mark Waser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Ummm.  It seems like you were/are saying then that because
> AIXI makes an 
> assumption limiting it's own applicability/proof (that
> it requires that the 
> environment be computable) and because AIXI can make some
> valid conclusions, 
> that that "suggests" that AIXI's limiting
> assumptions are true of the 
> universe.  That simply doesn't work, dude, unless you
> have a very loose 
> inductive-type definition of "suggests" that is
> more suited for inference 
> control than anything like a logical proof.

I am arguing by induction, not deduction:

If the universe is computable, then Occam's Razor holds.
Occam's Razor holds.
Therefore the universe is computable.

Of course, I have proved no such thing.

-- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED]



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