From: Nick Tarleton (nickptar@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Jan 23 2008 - 16:07:56 MST
On Jan 23, 2008 3:58 PM, Matt Mahoney <matmahoney@yahoo.com> wrote:
> AIXI/Occam's Razor favors the simplest algorithm, not the fastest program.
> There is an inverse relation, as outlined in the table in
> http://www.mattmahoney.net/singularity.html
Doesn't this neglect that simulators may prefer to run more complex
but more efficient simulations? Humans, at least, would presumably be
much more likely to run brain or universe simulations (or something in
between) than multiverses.
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