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Straight out of Life Artificial...

This is pedantic, but I don't like the formulation of entropy as sum of p log(1/p). I think of log(p) as information of a single event, for which log base 1/2 gives the answer in b…

It's not just crashing/halting. See Rice's Theorem. The machine can't predict its own future behavior in most ways that are important. I'm not an expert in this stuff, and my point…

(not OP) It's been a while, but if I recall correctly NB didn't address the technical limitations of Turing machines, e.g. the halting problem. How is a machine supposed to make it…