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Re:Intelligence as a Halting Oracle by yters on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @11:24AM (#18392372)
Thanks for the link, I will be checking it out.

I evaluate this issue with a Bayesian + max entropy approach. We have two hypotheses:

1. humans are TMs

2. humans are PHOs

Max entropy weights these hypotheses equally. What humans do is given the highest expectation with #2. Thus, Bayesian hypothesis selection says #2 is the most likely explanation of the evidence. Inference to the best explanation says humans are PHOs.

Re:Intelligence as a Halting Oracle by eigenspace on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @11:59AM (#18392722)
> I evaluate this issue with a Bayesian + max entropy approach.

I have a similar approach to gravity. There are two hypotheses

1. The gravitational field comes about from the curvature of spacetime

2. The ghost of Einstein flies around through all of space at an impossibly high speed nudging all objects such that their trajectories align with what he would find elegant.

Max entropy weights these hypotheses equally. What h̶u̶m̶a̶n̶s̶ planets do is given the highest expectation with #2. Thus, Bayesian hypothesis selection says #2 is the most likely explanation of the evidence. Inference to the best explanation says h̶u̶m̶a̶n̶s̶ ̶a̶r̶e̶ ̶P̶H̶O̶s̶ gravity is Einstein's ghost.

Re:Intelligence as a Halting Oracle by yters on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @12:50PM (#18393226)
The Einstein ghost approach isn't very well defined, so it is just a placeholder. It is equivalent to saying "god did it" or "FSM did it". PHO is well defined.