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

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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 17 April 2014 11:04:23AM 0 points [-]

The nature of the unspecified criteria is such that it is unfulfilled in a large majority of worlds which fulfill the specified criteria.

That's not exactly my claim. My claim is that things that are the best optimised for fulfilling our specified criteria are unlikely to satisfy our unspecified ones. It's not a question of outnumbering (siren and marketing worlds are rare) but of scoring higher on our specified criteria.