SilasBarta comments on Let's reimplement EURISKO! - Less Wrong

19 Post author: cousin_it 11 June 2009 04:28PM

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Comment author: SilasBarta 11 June 2009 04:48:37PM 4 points [-]

I'm with you, all the way. I was intensely curious when I first read about it. Specifically, the idea of being able to generate arbitrary concepts without being pre-programmed, and having heuristics and metaheuristics and meta[*n]-heuristics that were apparently able to come up with non-obvious solutions to problems, like that war game.

It even came up with interesting results when it didn't solve anything, such as heuristics that somehow optimized themselves for "claiming credit for findings of other heuristics".

So yes, let's pull back the curtain.