timtyler comments on The Popularization Bias - Less Wrong

21 Post author: Wei_Dai 17 July 2009 03:43PM

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Comment author: whpearson 17 July 2009 08:13:18PM *  4 points [-]

The No free lunch theorems of search could do with a populist write up.

Basically to tell people making AIs that they need to reference the world/problems they are trying to deal with.

Comment author: timtyler 17 July 2009 09:48:50PM -1 points [-]

Occam's razor means that the no free lunch theorems are practically irrelevant.