Earlier quoted context omitted.
> with a perfect representation of the territory, you can just simulate different strategies and deploy the best one. no need for risk management: your perfect map allows you to eliminate all risk Such a perfect map is impossible because it would need to have infinite accuracy, and its consequences would not be computable. > if you build a map without complete knowledge of the territory (which is the majority of maps…
all maps of a physical territory, yes. that’s a consequence of ħ, at the very least. but once you’ve encoded this best of all possible maps, the uncertainties in the map are quantified (like probabilities). you no longer have “unknown unknowns” so you can just carry through all the PDFs and create a true risk assessment. and it’s these unknown unknowns which were, AFAICT, the heart of this article.
This is part of the “computers are going to become AGI and enslave us” scam, they show people proofs AIXI is an optimal planner and don’t mention that it doesn’t include itself in the plans in order to make them computable.
If it was possible you could beat the stock market.