Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Optimization - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 September 2008 11:17:45AM 3 points [-]

Will, it's for that reason, and also for the sake of describing natural selection, that I speak of "optimization processes" rather than just saying "optimizer". For humans to produce a nuclear power plant requires more than one human and more than one crew of humans; it takes an economy and a history of science, though a good deal of extra effort is concentrated at the end of the problem.