Kindly comments on Rationality Quotes September 2012 - Less Wrong

7 Post author: Jayson_Virissimo 03 September 2012 05:18AM

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Comment author: Kindly 02 September 2012 09:06:42PM 2 points [-]

It's a nice sentiment, but the optimization problem you suggest is usually intractable.

Comment author: DanielLC 02 September 2012 10:51:15PM 2 points [-]

It's better to at least attempt it than just find an easier problem and do that. You might have to rely on intuition and such to get any answer, but you're not going to do well if you just find something easier to optimize.

Comment author: Kindly 02 September 2012 11:04:22PM 3 points [-]

Yes, but there's no way a pithy quote is going to solve the problem for you. It might, however, contain a useful heuristic.