And a “sequence of increasingly better algorithms,” if chosen in a computable way, is just a computable algorithm.
True but I’m arguing that this computable algorithm is just the alien itself, trying to answer the question “how can I better predict this richer world in order to take it over?” If there is no shorter/faster algorithm that can come up with a sequence of increasingly better algorithms, what is the point of saying that the alien is sampling from the speed prior, instead of saying that the alien is thinking about how to answer “how can I better predict this richer world in order to take it over?” Actually if this alien was sampling from the speed prior, then it would no longer be the shortest/fastest algorithm to come up with a sequence of increasingly better algorithms, and some other alien trying to take over our world would have the highest posterior instead.
I’m having a hard time following this. Can you expand on this, without using “sequence of increasingly better algorithms”? I keep translating that to “algorithm.”
True but I’m arguing that this computable algorithm is just the alien itself, trying to answer the question “how can I better predict this richer world in order to take it over?” If there is no shorter/faster algorithm that can come up with a sequence of increasingly better algorithms, what is the point of saying that the alien is sampling from the speed prior, instead of saying that the alien is thinking about how to answer “how can I better predict this richer world in order to take it over?” Actually if this alien was sampling from the speed prior, then it would no longer be the shortest/fastest algorithm to come up with a sequence of increasingly better algorithms, and some other alien trying to take over our world would have the highest posterior instead.
I’m having a hard time following this. Can you expand on this, without using “sequence of increasingly better algorithms”? I keep translating that to “algorithm.”