Kaj_Sotala comments on Fundamentally Flawed, or Fast and Frugal? - Less Wrong

41 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 20 December 2009 03:10PM

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Comment author: Daniel_Burfoot 21 December 2009 04:05:04AM 3 points [-]

The demonstration that a fast and frugal satisficing algorithm won the competition defeats the widespread view that only “rational” algorithms can be accurate.

While this demonstration is interesting in some sense, it's pretty obvious that for any algorithm one can find an example problem at which the algorithm excels. Does the paper state how many example problems were tried?

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 21 December 2009 08:27:52AM 2 points [-]

Does the paper state how many example problems were tried?

Only this problem. Later research has studied the algorithm's performance for other problems, though.