ChristianKl comments on Closet survey #1 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ChristianKl 26 January 2014 01:58:20PM *  1 point [-]

There no reason to assume that messing with a complex system that you don't understand means that you will have on average a 50% success rate.

There are many cases where trying to push a complex system into a local optima might have bad consequences. The system might get more robust but lose resiliency.