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Class #1: Introduction and the Church-Turing Thesis | Philosophy and Theoretical Computer Science
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Philosophy and Theoretical Computer Science. Official Blog of MIT's Course 6.893 (taught by Scott Aaronson). Class #2: The Extended Church-Turing Thesis, the Turing Test, and the Chinese Room →. Class #1: Introduction and the Church-Turing Thesis. September 8, 2011. Why should scientists and mathematicians spend time thinking about philosophy? Be of any particular philosophical interest? The Church-Turing Thesis: a mathematical definition? A thesis about human psychology or concepts? Just a test comment.
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Class #11: Complexity, Economics, and Bounded Rationality | Philosophy and Theoretical Computer Science
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Philosophy and Theoretical Computer Science. Official Blog of MIT's Course 6.893 (taught by Scott Aaronson). Class #10: The Deutsch MWI Argument, the Evolutionary Principle, and Closed Timelike Curves. Off-Topic Discussion →. Class #11: Complexity, Economics, and Bounded Rationality. November 24, 2011. In general, do. Pose a serious challenge to classical economic theory? If so, is that challenge over and above the one posed by ordinary cognitive biases? Agents’ lack of such power? In what ways is the Su...
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Class #8: Occam’s Razor, the Universal Prior, and PAC-Learning | Philosophy and Theoretical Computer Science
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Philosophy and Theoretical Computer Science. Official Blog of MIT's Course 6.893 (taught by Scott Aaronson). Class #7: Kolmogorov Complexity and Homomorphic Encryption. Class #9: Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Computing →. Class #8: Occam’s Razor, the Universal Prior, and PAC-Learning. November 3, 2011. For a non-tautological justification of Occam’s Razor? Can one explain, non-circularly, why the “Anti-Inductivists” are wrong? If so, what would need to be done to address that problem? A weird idea: There...