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Donald Hoffman Λ Joscha Bach on Consciousness, Free Will, Gödel, and Computational Reality

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

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Is There an Efficient Strategy to Find the Shortest Theory of Everything?

In principle, it should be possible to find the shortest automaton between two every pair of automata that you can construct and can up with. The question is what's your search procedure for all the possible automata? Have a search procedure that you can hope that terminates? And so far we haven't found one. We can never be sure that our theory of everything is er is the best theory that could exist of things.

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