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