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www.antipope.org | ||
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simulation-argument.com
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| | | | | The original paper that introduced the simulation argument | |
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scottaaronson.blog
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| | | | | Author's Note:Below is the prepared version ofa talk that I gavetwo weeks ago at theworkshop Quantum Foundations of a Classical Universe, which was held at IBM's TJ Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY. My talk is for entertainment purposes only; it should not be taken seriously by anyone. If you reply in a way... | |
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www.greaterwrong.com
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| | | | | The most common formalizations of Occam's Razor, Solomonoff induction and Minimum Description Length, measure the program size of a computation used in a hypothesis, but don't measure the running time or space requirements of the computation. What if this makes a mind vulnerable to finite forms of Pascal's Wager? A compactly specified wager can grow in size much faster than it grows in complexity. The utility of a Turing machine can grow much faster than its prior probability shrinks. | |
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acoup.blog
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| | | Dear Readers! As I've noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards the end of this year in order to allow me to focus on finalizing the manuscript of my book project, a study of the cost of fielding armies in the third and second centuries BC. That... | ||
