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

27 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 07 April 2014 11:00AM

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Comment author: DanielLC 17 April 2014 06:09:04PM 0 points [-]

What's the difference?

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 18 April 2014 08:51:30AM 0 points [-]

Siren worlds are optimised to be bad and hide this fact. Marketing worlds are optimised to appear good, and the badness is an indirect consequence of this.