I only sort of understand what you mean. BTW, we really need to work to overcome this communications barrier between us, and perhaps also with Steve Rayhawk. I can generally understand Steve’s comments much better than yours, but maybe that’s just because may of his ideas are similar to mine. When he introduces ideas that are new to me, I have trouble understanding him as well.
What can we do? Any ideas? Do you guys have similar trouble understanding me?
Back to the topic at hand, I guess I was asking for some assurance that in your FAI approach we’d be able to verify the preference-extraction method on some examples that we can understand before we have to “let go”. I got some information out of what you wrote, but I don’t know if it answers that question.
a self-contained mathematical structure
Every self-contained mathematical structure is also contained within larger mathematical structures. For example, our universe must exist both as a stand-alone mathematical structure, and also as simulations within larger universes, and we have preferences both for the smaller mathematical structure, as well as the larger ones. I’m not sure if you’ve already taken that into account, but thought I’d point it out in case you haven’t.
Every self-contained mathematical structure is also contained within larger mathematical structures. For example, our universe must exist both as a stand-alone mathematical structure, and also as simulations within larger universes, and we have preferences both for the smaller mathematical structure, as well as the larger ones. I’m not sure if you’ve already taken that into account, but thought I’d point it out in case you haven’t.
It’s useless to discuss fine points in an informal description like this. At least, what is meant by “mathematical structures” should be understood, depending on that your point may be correct, wrong, or meaningless. In this case, I simply referred to taking the problem inside a limited universe of discourse, as opposed to freely interacting with the world.
I only sort of understand what you mean. BTW, we really need to work to overcome this communications barrier between us, and perhaps also with Steve Rayhawk. I can generally understand Steve’s comments much better than yours, but maybe that’s just because may of his ideas are similar to mine. When he introduces ideas that are new to me, I have trouble understanding him as well.
What can we do? Any ideas? Do you guys have similar trouble understanding me?
Back to the topic at hand, I guess I was asking for some assurance that in your FAI approach we’d be able to verify the preference-extraction method on some examples that we can understand before we have to “let go”. I got some information out of what you wrote, but I don’t know if it answers that question.
Every self-contained mathematical structure is also contained within larger mathematical structures. For example, our universe must exist both as a stand-alone mathematical structure, and also as simulations within larger universes, and we have preferences both for the smaller mathematical structure, as well as the larger ones. I’m not sure if you’ve already taken that into account, but thought I’d point it out in case you haven’t.
It’s useless to discuss fine points in an informal description like this. At least, what is meant by “mathematical structures” should be understood, depending on that your point may be correct, wrong, or meaningless. In this case, I simply referred to taking the problem inside a limited universe of discourse, as opposed to freely interacting with the world.