Strange7 comments on Siren worlds and the perils of over-optimised search - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Strange7 02 May 2014 03:10:43PM 0 points [-]

This just isn't always so. If you instruct an AI to optimise a car for speed, efficiency and durability but forget to specify that it has to be aerodynamic, you aren't going to get a car shaped like a brick. You can't optimise for speed and efficiency without optimising for aerodynamics too.

Unless you start by removing the air, in some way that doesn't count against the car's efficiency.