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| | As the orchestra warms up for the final opera of the Ring cycle, the great conflict in Richard Wagner's mind has been settled at last. Gone is the giddy utopian fantasy Wagner took from Ludwig Feue...
| | 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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| | The original paper that introduced the simulation argument
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| [AI summary] GBH highlights its extensive library of free, standards-aligned digital resources for teachers covering U.S. history, civics, and STEM to support media literacy and critical thinking in classrooms.