Gunnar_Zarncke comments on Natural selection defeats the orthogonality thesis - Less Wrong

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Comment author: cousin_it 30 September 2014 12:21:44AM * 0 points [-]

I'm not sure why people consider cartesianism unsolved. I wrote a couple comments about that here, also see Wei_Dai's comment.

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 30 September 2014 09:56:09AM 0 points [-]

I agree that there is some solid progress in this direction.

But that doesn't mean that any self-optimizing process necessarily solves it. Rather the opposite.