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Re:Ask HN: What are some 'must watch' talks? on Monday February 06, 2017 @11:22PM (#13586998)
Is the Schmidhuber talk about his idea that benevolence and "fun" reduces to maximizing compression of sensory experience? I really wish he would stop peddling that.
Re:Logical Induction on Sunday September 18, 2016 @09:05PM (#12528123)
And what if the propositions we want to reason about are self-referencing or say something about the system itself in a Godelian way? You need probabilistic reasoning for that to actually work.

Also, "simply prove/disprove the propositions" requires infinite computational resources (we don't know how long the proofs will be or if there are any). Logical induction does not.