From: Matt Mahoney (matmahoney@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Apr 25 2008 - 09:28:18 MDT
--- Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/4/25 Matt Mahoney <matmahoney@yahoo.com>:
>
> > I proposed a bound on happiness (or unhappiness) of K(S2|S1), where S1 is
> the
> > state of an intelligence before the reinforcement signal, S2 is the state
> > afterwards, and K is Kolmogorov complexity. It is intuitive in that a
> > stronger reinforcement signal induces a greater change in mental state
> (as
> > measured by the length of the shortest program that describes the
> change), and
> > that it is not possible to experience happiness without memory. By this
> > definition, happiness would be bounded by the complexity of the
> intelligence.
>
> You can't imagine a state of mindless orgasmic bliss?
Yes, and it profoundly changes the state of the addict's mind. His whole life
becomes centered around obtaining more of the drug.
-- Matt Mahoney, matmahoney@yahoo.com
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