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The search for the shortest program that computes the history of the universe.
19:16 - 26:40 (07:24)
Scientists are in search of the shortest program that computes the entire history of the entire universe as it would make the description of the universe much simpler and less ugly. There is an alternative explanation where everything considered random is pseudo-random, such as the decimal expansion of pi, which looks random but is not.
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Scientists are searching for the shortest program that can compute the entire history of the universe, and while the universe may seem random, there may be a pseudo-random generator that can predict it all.
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Scientists are searching for the shortest program that can compute the entire history of the universe, and while the universe may seem random, there may be a pseudo-random generator that can predict it all.
ChapterThe search for the shortest program that computes the history of the universe.
EpisodeJuergen Schmidhuber: Godel Machines, Meta-Learning, and LSTMs
PodcastLex Fridman Podcast
The history of science is defined by our ability to compress more and more data while still accurately describing reality, including our understanding of how the universe works.
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The history of science is defined by our ability to compress more and more data while still accurately describing reality, including our understanding of how the universe works. However, as we discover more and more complex phenomena, incorporating them into our existing models requires larger and less elegant descriptions.