Re: The Time Deniers

From: Bruno Marchal <marchal.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 12:54:17 +0200

Le 15-juil.-05, à 04:15, Hal Finney a écrit :

> Surely Chaitin's algorithmic information theory would not work;
> inputting
> a zero length program into a typical UTM would not produce the set of
> all infinite length bitstrings; in fact, I don't see how a TM could
> even
> create such an output from any program.

The set of all bitstrings, S, cannot have null information content.
Now, given that such information content are generally defined up to a
constant, you could, by fixing some special purpose universal machine
to make S information null.
I don't think it is important, but a Pythagorean could appreciate.

Bruno

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Received on Fri Jul 15 2005 - 06:56:49 PDT

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