Very enjoyable reading! You're suggestion for a prior is reminiscent,
if not the same, as that suggested by Schmidhuber and discussed at length
here recently, mainly by Alistair Malcolm and Russell Standish. Have you
read Schmidhuber's paper? I recommend it, it can be found at
http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/everything/html.html.
I thoroughly enjoyed your description of capital-Omega - I haven't come
across that concept before. You are quite a good writer, I might add.
Iain Stewart wrote:
>
> Hello everythingers (and Max)... After "lurking" on this mailing list for quite
> some time now, I've decided to take the plunge and advertise here a web page
> I've prepared giving my own thoughts on the possibilities for a theory of
> everything. It's mainly my comments on the avenue I regard as most promising,
> and which was one of the foundation stones that helped this list get started
> with something to talk about(!) - namely, Max Tegmark's "ultimate ensemble
> theory" paper, available in various formats at his web site
> (http://www.sns.ias.edu/~max/toe.html) or as preprint gr-qc/9704009
> (http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/gr-qc/9704009).
>
> Probably the best way to view my web page is via the "Crit" web annotation and
> critical discussion service:
>
> http://crit.org/http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ids/dotdot/misc/research_related/TheoriesOfEverything/my_thoughts.html
>
> (Indeed, I can recommend the Crit service for viewing the web in general! Just
> put the prefix "http://crit.org/" in front of whatever URL you were going to
> look at.)
>
> If the Crit service gives problems (e.g. it's sometimes down or very slow),
> you'll just have to drop the "http://crit.org/" prefix and view my page
> directly:
>
> http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ids/dotdot/misc/research_related/TheoriesOfEverything/my_thoughts.html
>
> I should warn that it's rather technical in places, and in particular will not
> make sense outside the context of Max's paper. (Cynics will no doubt say it
> doesn't make that much sense *in* the context of Max's paper! :-) ) Also, it's
> worded as if "to Max", i.e. "you" means Max, etc etc - this is simply because
> it's an adaptation to HTML form of a message from me to Max of 28th September
> 1997, and it was simplest to leave it in that grammatical form.
>
> I hope at least part of it proves interesting to somebody. Comments and
> criticisms welcome. (I can't promise to reply to all e-mail 'cos this is a busy
> time here at Imperial College, but I'll try my best.)
>
> Iain.
>
> --
> Iain Stewart
> Dept. of Computing
> Imperial College, London SW7 2AZ, U.K.
> (+44) 20-7594-8349
> ids.domain.name.hidden
> http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ids/
>
> --
> And on the sixth day God said "Bugger this! I'm going to re-compile the
> universe *without* error checking."
> ---with apologies to Eric Fosdike <esf.domain.name.hidden>
--
Chris Maloney
http://www.chrismaloney.com
"Donuts are so sweet and tasty."
-- Homer Simpson
Received on Fri Dec 10 1999 - 18:55:00 PST