On 01-07-2018 00:50, Russell Standish wrote:
On Sun, Jul 01, 2018 at 12:36:19AM +0200, smitra wrote:
On 30-06-2018 21:27, Jason Resch wrote:
> It looks like Bruno's idea of extracting physics from all computations
> is catching on. I came across this article:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomonoff%27s_theory_of_inductive_inference
> [1]
>
> And this idea (from the 1960s) is being used in recent papers, such as
> this one: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.01826.pdf [2]
This is the bigger, more detailed, companion paper to the one I
mentioned a week or two ago.
>
> > Thus, in this paper, I propose an alternative approach which starts
> > with a (rigorously formalized) concept of “observation” as its
> > primary notion, and does not from the outset assume the existence of
> > a “world” or physical laws. It can be subsumed under a single
> > postulate: namely, that Solomonoff induction correctly predicts
> > future observations. Using tools from algorithmic information
> > theory, I show that the resulting theory suggests a possible
> > explanation for why there are (simple computable probabilistic)
> > “laws of nature” in the first place.
>
> Jason
Interesting! I think Markus Mueller made a brief appearance on this
list a
long time ago.
I don't remember him ever being involved in this list. In fact, when I
reached out to him about 6 months ago, he complained of being very
alone. I don't think he had heard of this list.
Maybe you were thinking of either Juergen Schmidhuber, or Marcus
Hutter, who were briefly involved on this list in the early days, and
both fellow Swiss (although Marcus now lives in Australia).
Yes, that was Marcus Hutter not Markus Mueller :)
Saibal
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