Some people lurk in the Shadows..
On Saturday, June 30, 2018 at 6:50:52 PM UTC-4, 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). > > > -- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > Principal, High Performance Coders > Visiting Senior Research Fellow [email protected] > <javascript:> > Economics, Kingston University http://www.hpcoders.com.au > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
