MagnetoHydroDynamics comments on Belief in Intelligence - Less Wrong

17 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 25 October 2008 03:00PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 17 June 2012 12:19:35PM 1 point [-]

No, gravity isn't genius, because even a well-designed pinball machine can have a fault that lets the ball get stuck somewhere. You are using a closed-form solution, not an optimization process anticipation.

Gravity doesn't let water flow uphill a little in order to flow downhill a lot later.

You might not be aware of my reaction times or how good I am at pinball, but you may anticipate with high probability that if I play this pinball game, the pinball will not just wind up falling straight in the hole.

Comment author: Plasmon 17 June 2012 12:33:41PM 1 point [-]

Gravity doesn't let water flow uphill a little in order to flow downhill a lot later.

Not to detract from your main point, but superfluids do exactely that.

Comment author: [deleted] 17 June 2012 12:51:51PM 1 point [-]

Superfluids still do not jump to higher energy states in order to descend to a lower one afterwards. Each atomic interaction a superfluid exhibits will always conserve energy and be, on average, entropic.

Comment author: [deleted] 04 October 2012 03:05:29PM 0 points [-]

Each move in an optimization process will increase expected utility...

Comment author: [deleted] 04 October 2012 04:25:33PM 0 points [-]

Yes. The only variables are the Utility Function, the Search Space Compression and the Primitive Action Set.