JulianMorrison comments on The Sin of Underconfidence - Less Wrong

55 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 April 2009 06:30AM

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Comment author: JulianMorrison 20 April 2009 07:48:53AM 1 point [-]

No, winning is good but losing is also useful - we ought to permanently eliminate from the corpus any argument that fails. Even if it wouldn't fail against a blockhead without the intellectual muscle to finesse a counter.

Comment author: ciphergoth 20 April 2009 09:54:39AM 2 points [-]

Losing is a lot more informative if we build on what we learned last time, don't you think?

Comment author: PhilGoetz 20 April 2009 10:31:54PM *  1 point [-]

If you permanently eliminate from the gene pool any genes that aren't currently working efficiently, your ability to evolve is limited.