RobinHanson comments on Optimization - Less Wrong

20 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 13 September 2008 04:00PM

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Comment author: RobinHanson 13 September 2008 04:25:20PM 0 points [-]

Without a narrow enough prior on the space of possible preferences, we might explain any behavior as the optimization of some preferences. It is interesting that this doesn't seem much of a problem in practice.