RolfAndreassen comments on Limits on self-optimisation - Less Wrong

6 Post author: RolfAndreassen 20 January 2012 09:58PM

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Comment author: DuncanS 22 January 2012 12:28:55AM 0 points [-]

I think it's right to say that it's not always possible to show that two programs are equivalent.

However, it is very often possible to do so for real functions - in fact far more often than not. So real options for optimization don't appear to be much constrained by this.