[ExI] Survival

Vladimir Nesov robotact at gmail.com
Fri Jan 4 22:30:40 UTC 2008


On Jan 5, 2008 1:10 AM, Jef Allbright <jef at jefallbright.net> wrote:
> On 1/4/08, Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:
> > At 10:02 PM 1/4/2008 +0100, Gene wrote:
> >
> > > > Yes, even more certainly than Stathis prefers vanilla.
> > >
> > >Y'all are weird. What would I prefer?
> >
> > The sauerkraut.
>
> While that may be reasonable, it's less certain than choosing between
> chocolate and vanilla.
>
> The "secret" of games like this is that the required output is only 1
> bit of information, while the input consists of a much greater number
> of bits of loosely correlated (but not independent) information,
> matching against vastly more bits of "experience" within an observer
> system that has practiced "getting out of the way" of the assessment.
>


It's not at all clear to me that this works. Are there experiments
that show that such assessment is better than random?


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Vladimir Nesov                            mailto:robotact at gmail.com



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