An Intuitive Explanation of Solomonoff Induction →

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Formalized Science

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Solomonoff Induction is the Scientific Method formalized into an algorithm.

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  1. Make an observation: observation = binary sequence
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  1. Form a hypothesis that explains the observation: use a Universal Turing Machine to find all possible hypotheses
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  1. Conduct an experiment that will test the hypothesis: through observation of the data you may be able to eliminate hypotheses as not explanatory
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  1. If hypothesis is disconfirmed, return to step 2. Otherwise, provisionally accept hypothesis: instead of accepting an individual hypothesis provisionally, we accept all explanatory hypotheses with their according probabilities.
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This finds the truth as best is possible, avoiding bias or requirement for creative discovery

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Still not efficient

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