Venu comments on Could Anything Be Right? - Less Wrong

20 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 18 July 2008 07:19AM

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Comment author: Venu 18 July 2008 08:40:39AM 2 points [-]

"There are no-free-lunch theorems in computer science - in a maxentropy universe, no plan is better on average than any other. " I don't think this is correct - in this form, the theorem is of no value, since we know the universe is not max-entropy. No-free-lunch theorems say that no plan is better on average than any other, when we consider all utility functions. Hence, we cannot design an intelligence that will maximize all utility functions/moralities.