Le 15-juil.-05, à 04:15, Hal Finney a écrit :
Surely Chaitin's algorithmic information theory would not work;
inputting
a zero length program into a typical UTM would not produce the set of
all infinite length bitstrings; in fact, I don't see how a TM could
even
create such an output from
Dear Russel,
Any ideas on the 3rd person aspect? Are you assuming that that
commutability or non-commutativity of observables is fixed a priori?
Kindest regards,
Stephen
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I make a comment on Wei Dai, as quoted by Hal Finney, and then I Hal Finney's answer.
Le 14-juil.-05, à 23:03, Hal Finney a écrit :
Wei Dai writes:
One day, Earth is contacted by a highly advanced alien civilization, and
they tell us that contrary to what most of us think is likely, not all of
One question I am uncertain about is this: how well could we test a
supposed halting-problem oracle (HPO) box?
In particular I wonder, suppose it turns out that P=NP and that further
there is an efficient algorithm to solve any NP problem. For those
unfamiliar with this terminology P means
Hi James;
Yes, you are definitely a conventional thinker Chris.
Im not sure what this line of argument has to do with the price of peas,
but as I have said, it wouldnt be troubling to me to be considered
conventional. However, I do think you are being hasty in so far as Im still
finding
Ben Goertzel:
but this doesn't mean induction is unformalizable,
it just means that the formalization of cognitive-science
induction in terms of algorithmic information theory
(rather than experience-grounded semantics) is
flawed...
Imo, induction only works when the complexity
of the
Any ideas on the 3rd person aspect?
Are you assuming that that commutability
or non-commutativity of observables
is fixed a priori?
Stephen
There are problems about consistency between
measurements on the same system
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0107151
and related
Dear scenir,
Thank you for reminding me to read that paper! It has been in my stack
for about a year.
I have been a long advocate that contextuality is very important in
physics and must be taken into account within any realist philosophy.
Whether contextuality manifests in terms of
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