Missing Shade of Blue
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Joined: Dec. 2008
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| Quote | | Then you haven't reduced the complexity, you've simply shifted it from the software to the hardware. |
But this just begs the question. In what sense is the second UTM more complex than the first one? Is this sense language-independent?
| Quote | | How do you think this helps you, particularly if you're trying to establish an analogy with natural selection? |
I wasn't trying to argue from analogy here. I was trying to argue that in principle there is no description language-independent notion of simplicity. This was supposed to be an argument against those who were saying that green really is simpler than grue in some objective sense.
I moved the discussion up to the complexity of the computers themselves in the first post I made on this thread. This was in response to those who were suggesting that although green may not be simpler than grue in purely linguistic terms, green-computers would be simpler than grue-computers.
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