Re: Raatikainen's critique of Chaitin

From: Torkel Franzen (torkel_at_sm.luth.se)
Date: 09/01/04 

Date: 01 Sep 2004 18:22:24 +0200

erayo@bilkent.edu.tr (Eray Ozkural exa) writes:

> You'll have to take that issue with Alexander Shen who is a
> distinguished mathematician, in my opinion, and probably has better
> handle on the subject than either of us.

  There's nothing to take up. You've just misread Shen.

> Not really. Martin-Lof randomness is equivalent to weak Chaitin
> random, Solovay randomness is equivalent to Chaitin random.

  They're all equivalent.

> Limit of algorithmic information content H(s) of initial segments r_n
> while n->infinity

  This limit need not exist.

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