Le 26-sept.-07, à 14:40, Wei Dai a écrit :
> So where does this chain of thought lead us? I think UD+ASSA, while > flawed, > can serve as a kind of stepping stone towards a more general > rationality. I would suggest to use the Hal Finney "UDist" term, instead of UD for helping the new people on the list to not confuse the UD = Universal Dovetailer, with the UDist = Universal Distribution. But this is a detail. Roughly speaking I agree with you. > Somehow UD+ASSA is more intuitively appealing, whereas truly > generalized > rationality looks very alien to us. I'm not sure any of us can really > practice the latter, even if we can accept it philosophically. But > perhaps > our descendents > can. This seems rather mysterious for me. > One danger I see with UD+ASSA is we'll program it into an AI, and the > AI will be forever stuck with the idea that non-computable phenomenon > can't > exist, > no matter what evidence it might observe. And this is still more mysterious. An "AI" as simple as the already existing "Peano Arithmetic" has enough cognitive abilities to understand that non-computable "phenomenon" have to exist (relatively to itself). I will say more when I come back on Church thesis. Bruno http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
