--- On Tue, 10/28/08, Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What Hutter proved is (very roughly) that given massive computational 
> resources, following Occam's Razor will be -- within some possibly quite 
> large constant -- the best way to achieve goals in a computable environment...
>
> That's not exactly "proving Occam's Razor", though it is a proof related to 
> Occam's Razor...

No, that's AIXI^tl. I was talking about AIXI. Hutter proved both.

> One could easily argue it is totally irrelevant to AI due to its assumption 
> of massive computational resources

If you mean AIXI^tl, I agree. However, it is AIXI that proves Occam's Razor. 
AIXI is useful to AGI exactly because it proves noncomputability. We can stop 
looking for a "neat" solution.

-- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED]



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