Re: ESSAY: Program length, Omega and Friendliness

From: Philip Goetz (philgoetz@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Mar 01 2006 - 08:35:31 MST


On 2/28/06, William Pearson <wil.pearson@gmail.com> wrote:
> With experimentation, by definition the bits of omega or equivalent
> number are random, so knowing one bit will have no bearing on the
> others so I wouldn't expect any improvement.

The definition of omega says nothing about randomness, therefore the
bits are not random by definition. I suspect you are assuming that
the probability of one program halting is independent of the
probability of any other program halting. This seems unlikely to me.



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