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

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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 28 April 2014 11:45:26AM *  0 points [-]

on there being trade-offs between our specified wants and our unspecified wants

Yes, certainly. That's a problem of optimisation with finite resources. If A is a specified want and B is an unspecified want, then we shouldn't confuse "there are worlds with high A and also high B" with "the world with the highest A will also have high B".