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Computable AGI

Data Skeptic

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The Importance of Cognitive Bias in Decision Making

In its uncomputable definition I guess you're kind of saying we have a probability distribution over every possible Turing machine as our hypothesis of how the world works. If the universe truly is computable then somewhere in that distribution is the correct answer is the right model it's just zoning in on which one of all those Turing machines it is. We're never going to find the exact one that's impossible for the halting problem and reasons like that so maybe we can get epsilon close to it or something like that but do we miss something when we know we don't have a guarantee of finding the optimal one? Do the approach lose all its luster because of that? "I don't think

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