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Comment author: cousin_it 21 December 2011 01:09:16PM *  2 points [-]

Yeah, the problem in the non-oracle setting is about separating A from the rest of the universe. I feel that any good solution to this problem should be "crisp" rather than delegated to A's fuzzy reasoning abilities, because at this point in our research we're not yet trying to make a good optimizer, but trying to define mathematically what optimization means in the first place.