Here’s a recent thread musing about problems with Bayesian conceptions of general intelligence and the more specific variants based on Solmonoff induction, such as AIXI. I’ve been thinking about these issues a lot recently, in tandem with the proper interpretation of the no free lunch theorems in the context of machine learning. I’m writing something that will hopefully incorporate some of these ideas, but I do not know how much detail I will be able to go into there.
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