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Re:Why general artificial intelligence will not be realized by ethanwillis on Friday July 10, 2020 @01:17PM (#23793827)
It has been a minute since I picked up my information theory book.

However if I remember correctly continuous signals (that is functions of the reals) can be represented without loss with a finite (but sufficient number of) discrete samples.

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Re:Why general artificial intelligence will not be realized by sgillen on Friday July 10, 2020 @01:22PM (#23793891)
As long as all those reals are computable ;) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable_number
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Re:Why general artificial intelligence will not be realized by ggggtez on Friday July 10, 2020 @01:40PM (#23794125)
It's fully possible for a computer to do symbolic math without reducing the symbols to a decimal.
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Re:Why general artificial intelligence will not be realized by sgillen on Friday July 10, 2020 @08:45PM (#23798337)
Of course! I meant my comment to be tongue in cheek, but saying that some numbers are uncomputable is not incompatible with symbolic math on a computer. Note that for example Pi is computable, despite having an infinite decimal expansion.
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