From: Christian Szegedy (szegedy@or.uni-bonn.de)
Date: Thu Oct 21 2004 - 05:49:27 MDT
Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote:
> Schmidhuber spoke of proving only that the code modification had
> greater expected utility. Even if you proved the new system would do
> exactly what the old system did, only faster, it would not follow that
> the new system was an *improvement*.
It seems to me that Schmidhubers algorithm is an improved version of
the Hutters universal search algorithm. A very intuitive, but good
explanation can be found on this page:
http://fortnow.com/lance/complog/archive/2003_05_04_archive.html
(Look for universal search.)
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