I actually hadn’t read that post or seen the idea anywhere before writing this up. It’s a pretty natural resolution, so I’d be unsurprised if it was independently discovered before. Sorry about being unable to assist.
The extra penalty to describe where you are in the universe corresponds to requiring sense data to pin down *which* star you are near, out of the many stars, even if you know the laws of physics, so it seems to recover desired behavior.
Hm. I recently wrote a post where I said this idea was probably not original—do you remember a source for this instance of it?
I actually hadn’t read that post or seen the idea anywhere before writing this up. It’s a pretty natural resolution, so I’d be unsurprised if it was independently discovered before. Sorry about being unable to assist.
The extra penalty to describe where you are in the universe corresponds to requiring sense data to pin down *which* star you are near, out of the many stars, even if you know the laws of physics, so it seems to recover desired behavior.