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Context:I (Daniel C) have been working with Aram Ebtekar on various directions in his work on algorithmic thermodynamics and the causal arrow of time. This post explores some implications of algorithmic thermodynamics on the concept of optimization. All mistakes are my (Daniel's) own. A typical picture of optimization is when...
Epistemic status: This first collaboration between Daniel Chiang (who is interested in the algorithmic information theory of incrementally constructed representations) and myself (Cole Wyeth) contains some fairly simple but elegant results that help illustrate differences between ordinary and reflective Oracle Solomonoff Induction (rOSI). Update 02/15/26: The connection between rOSI and...