simon comments on Siren worlds and the perils of over-optimised search - Less Wrong

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Comment author: simon 09 April 2014 08:53:34PM 0 points [-]

Thanks but I don't see the relevance of the reversal test. The reversal test involves changing the value of a parameter but not the amount of optimization. And the reversal test shouldn't apply to a parameter that is already optimized over unless the current optimization is wrong or circumstances on which the optimization depends are changing.