Comment on Siren worlds and the perils of over-optimised search

Fri, 11 Apr 2014 22:54:57 GMT

It sounds like, "the better you do maximizing your utility function, the more likely you are to get a bad result," which can't be true with the ordinary meanings of all those words. The only ways I can see for this to be true is if you aren't actually maximizing your utility function, or your true utility function is not the same as the one you're maximizing. But then you're just plain old maximizing the wrong thing.

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