Shane Legg wrote:
Ben (and others),
My impression is that there is a general lack of understanding
when it comes to AIXI and related things. It seems that someone
who doesn't understand the material makes a statement, which
others then take as fact, and the cycle repeats.
Part of the problem, I think, is that the material is difficult for
people to fully understand. Marcus knows this, and he also
understands that while he is a brilliant theoretician, his skills
in explaining complex ideas in the simplest way possible are
not as strong. To help address this, part of my PhD thesis is
going to be, I hope, a very easy to understand explanation of
AIXI and universal intelligence --- Marcus doesn't even want
me to put any proofs into this part of the thesis, which is most
unlike him!
I am writing this chapter at the moment and I will let this list
know when it has been completed and reviewed. Hopefully
then we can all focus on the real weaknesses of this work,
rather than the imagined ones.
Cheers
Shane
Shane,
Thankyou for being patronizing.
Some of us do understand the AIXI work in enough depth to make valid
criticism.
The problem is that you do not understand the criticism well enough to
address it.
Richard Loosemore.
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