Steven Smithee is not just a Black Belt Bayesian, but a Black Belt at Keeping Track of Who Has Said What About Cool Topics in Web Pages that are Linked To from Nowhere Else on the Internet. He pointed out <http://udassa.com/summary1.html>, where someone (Hal Finney, if we go by 'whois') said:
> A final point: I strongly suspect that the biggest contribution to the > measure of observers (and observer-moments) like our own will arise from > programs which conceptually have two parts. The first part creates a universe > similar to the one we see where the observers evolve, and the second part > selects the observer for output. I have argued elsewhere that each part can > be relatively small compared to a program which was hard-wired to produce a > specific observer and had all the information necessary to do so. Small > programs have greater measure (occupy a greater fraction of possible input > strings) hence this would be the main source of measure for observers like us. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
