Re: Hutter's article on a complete theory of everything

2011-03-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Mar 2011, at 22:40, Russell Standish wrote: On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 06:03:12PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 16 Mar 2011, at 09:53, Digital Physics wrote: You are right, the theory of nothing is an old hat, published in the 1990s. Hutter's new contribution is the observer

RE: Hutter's article on a complete theory of everything

2011-03-16 Thread Digital Physics
and therefore more predictive in the Bayesian framework. This allows to distinguish meaningful from predictively meaningless theories. Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 21:26:59 + From: andrewsol...@gmail.com To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Hutter's article on a complete theory of everything

Re: Hutter's article on a complete theory of everything

2011-03-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
21:26:59 + From: andrewsol...@gmail.com To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Hutter's article on a complete theory of everything On 11/03/11 09:39, Digital Physics wrote: Send Rummaging through the archives, I realized that a highly relevant article by Marcus Hutter apparently

Re: Hutter's article on a complete theory of everything

2011-03-16 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 06:03:12PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 16 Mar 2011, at 09:53, Digital Physics wrote: You are right, the theory of nothing is an old hat, published in the 1990s. Hutter's new contribution is the observer localization: how many bits are necessary to identify the

Re: Hutter's article on a complete theory of everything

2011-03-11 Thread Andrew Soltau
On 11/03/11 09:39, Digital Physics wrote: Rummaging through the archives, I realized that a highly relevant article by Marcus Hutter apparently has not yet been discussed on this list, although many have downloaded it: Highly relevant indeed. He states in his summary I have demonstrated that a