Re: One solution to the Measure Problem: UTM outputs a qualia, not a universe

2007-09-16 Thread Rolf Nelson
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

The Fractal Speculation

2007-09-16 Thread Youness Ayaita
When I worked on my theory of the Everything ensemble, I have always been convinced that it would require serious efforts to explain the ideas to others. Today, I know that I was wrong: it requires only a small sequence of numbers... Page numbers that can easily be looked up in Russell's book

Re: No(-)Justification Justifies The Everything Ensemble

2007-09-16 Thread Hal Ruhl
Hi Youness: I have been posting models based on a list of properties as the fundamental for a few years. Hal Ruhl At 06:36 PM 9/13/2007, you wrote: On 13 Sep., 19:44, Brent Meeker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Youness Ayaita wrote: This leads to the 2nd idea: We don't say that imaginable

Re: One solution to the Measure Problem: UTM outputs a qualia, not a universe

2007-09-16 Thread Hal Finney
Rolf writes: World-Index-Compression Postulate: The most probable way for the output of a random UTM program to be a single qualia, is through having a part of the program calculate a Universe, U, that is similar to the universe we currently are observing; and then having another part of the