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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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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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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.samwoolfe.com
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| | | Blaise Pascal (1623-62) was a French mathematician, physicist, philosopher, and Catholic theologian. One of his most influential contributions to the philosophy of religion is a philosophical argument known as Pascal's wager. This idea was published posthumously in Pascal's Pensées ("Thoughts"). This post will describe how Pascal's wager can be usefully applied to animal ethics, namely,... | ||
