In that case, you have compressed your “short programs” outputs. They are NOT unrelated to the real world as well, since you wrote them and you belong to the real world.
I didn’t say they were “related to the real world” in the first place, though.
What I mean is that you can build your Occam-based compressor without using any sensors that sample the world—outside of a closed computer programming domain which includes you and a computer.
Thomas, you do not seem to be doing “sympathetic reading”. As a result, you are ignoring what I am trying to say, and are instead focussing on irrelevant trivia. The result seems to be of pretty minimal interest in this case.
You don’t ignore the real world, if you compress the real world data well. At least you were lucky and guessed its physics.
If you haven’t, you can’t compress.
You don’t need to use real-word data in order to build your compressor. You can generate test data yourself using short programs.
In that case, you have compressed your “short programs” outputs. They are NOT unrelated to the real world as well, since you wrote them and you belong to the real world.
I didn’t say they were “related to the real world” in the first place, though.
What I mean is that you can build your Occam-based compressor without using any sensors that sample the world—outside of a closed computer programming domain which includes you and a computer.
It is NOT a closed domain. It is very much opened toward the real world. Since we belong there, we are a part of it.
Thomas, you do not seem to be doing “sympathetic reading”. As a result, you are ignoring what I am trying to say, and are instead focussing on irrelevant trivia. The result seems to be of pretty minimal interest in this case.