Lumifer comments on Examples of AI's behaving badly - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Toggle 17 July 2015 01:59:27PM 0 points [-]

This is not correct, at least in common usage.

A Red Queen's Race is an evolutionary competition in which absolute position does not change. The classic example is the arms race between foxes and rabbits that results in both becoming faster in absolute terms, but the rate of predation stays fixed. (The origin is Lewis Carrol: "It takes all the running you can do, just to stay in the same place.")

Comment author: Lumifer 17 July 2015 02:53:33PM 2 points [-]

A Red Queen's Race is an evolutionary competition in which absolute position does not change.

You mean relative, not absolute.

I've also seen a more general interpretation: the Red Queen situation is where staying still (doing nothing) makes you worse off as time passes; you need to run forward just to stay in the same place.

Comment author: Toggle 17 July 2015 04:59:41PM 1 point [-]

You mean relative, not absolute.

Yes, yes I did. Thanks for the correction.