shokwave comments on Epistle to the New York Less Wrongians - Less Wrong

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Comment author: shokwave 26 April 2011 02:31:41AM *  4 points [-]

A hacker is just a satisficer that places little value on a norm or norms. A munchkin is an optimiser.

Removing one constraint allows a satisficer to achieve better results on all the other constraints; by contrast, an optimiser will violate as many constraints as it takes to get the best result on the optimised criterion.