Rob Freeman wrote:
> Rick,
>
> I enjoyed the "Truth and Meaning" paper by Soames you referenced. I
> was interested to see how philosophers are trying to deal with the
> failure of analycity typified by Quine etc. (01)
I'm just getting a chance to read Two Dogmas and look forward to
discussing some time in the future. (02)
> Are you familiar with the approach taken by Jeurgen Schmidhuber and
> Marcus Hutter? Schmidhuber resolves incompleteness issues by equating
> "intelligence" with prediction. Marcus Hutter equates it with
> compression.
>
> http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/newai/newai.html
>
> http://prize.hutter1.net/
>
> Or course Schmidhuber and Hutter talk principally about "intelligence"
> not "meaning", but what is interesting is that by basing
> "intelligence" in prediction/compression, they manage to avoid the
> pitfalls of formal logic. (03)
These look interesting. I'll check them out ! (04)
> -Rob
>
> (05)
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