On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 02:07:28PM -0800, Brent Meeker wrote:
> >
> > Of course this point is moot if the universe is not simulable!
>
> Or if the length of the code has nothing to do with it's probability.
>
> Brent Meeker
>
No, because that assumption (Solomonoff-Levin style probability and
its relationship with algorithmic information was assumed by the
respondent - whose name has become buried in the everything list
archive.
I seriously doubt any other probability distribution would make sense,
but that's another point altogether.
Cheers
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