Re: [sl4] Rolf's gambit revisited

From: Peter de Blanc (peter@spaceandgames.com)
Date: Mon Jan 05 2009 - 23:15:28 MST


Rui Ferreira wrote:
>> K(Y), but you can have a program which (exactly) simulates many programs of
>> high complexity without being complex itself (e.g. AIXItl).
>
> But it wouldn't be possible to know which one of the programs being
> simulated by X is Y, right?

If you mean, "it wouldn't be possible to pick out just one program of
high Kolmogorov complexity, and only pay attention to it, while you
yourself have low Kolmogorov complexity," then I agree.



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