Caspian comments on Causal Diagrams and Causal Models - Less Wrong
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I had meant to suggest some sort of unintelligent feedback system. Not coincidence, but also not an intelligent optimisation, so still not an exact parallel to his thermostat.
The thermostat was created by an intelligent human.
I never said the optimizing process had to be that intelligent, i.e., the blind-idiot-god counts.