gwern comments on Open Thread: February 2010, part 2 - Less Wrong
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Sure. In fact, some of the Lenat quotes on LW even tell you why.
As a hack to defeat 'parasitic' heuristics, Lent (& co.?) put into Eurisko a 'protected kernel' which couldn't be modified. This core was not good enough to get everything going, dooming Eurisko from a seed AI perspective, and the heuristics never got anywhere near the point they could bypass the kernel. Eurisko was inherently self-limited.