<div dir="ltr"><div>That's a LONG paper for such a simple question. Oy vey! Philosophers! I pulled out two numbers though:</div><div><br></div>10^445 possible strings the judge could utter.<br><div><br></div><div>The strategy tree embodied by the HT program has 10^22,278 nodes<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>Those numbers are sufficiently large for me to presume that this implementation could not be realized. Just as I stated much more succinctly and far less rigourously. ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>
-Kelly</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 6:00 PM, Anders Sandberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anders@aleph.se" target="_blank">anders@aleph.se</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 10/01/2014 00:11, Kelly Anderson wrote:<br>
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The physics of this universe combined with the mathematics of<br>
probability make it impossible to create a "look up table" that could<br>
even begin to pretend consciousness.<br>
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Heh. Philosophical thought experiment, right? However, I saw a neat paper recently looking at how the causal structure of the universe actually puts nontrivial limits on faking Turing tests. I think it was by Drew McDermott, building on his paper<br>
<a href="http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/dvm/papers/humongous.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/<u></u>dvm/papers/humongous.pdf</a><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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-- <br>
Anders Sandberg,<br>
Future of Humanity Institute<br>
Oxford Martin School<br>
Faculty of Philosophy<br>
Oxford University<br>
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