guest4 comments on Belief in Intelligence - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: guest4 25 October 2008 05:14:57PM 3 points [-]

"Is gravity really such a genius?"

Gravity may not be a genius, but it's still an optimization problem, since the ball "wants" to minimize its potential energy. Of course, there are limits to such a reasoning: perhaps the ball will get stuck somewhere and never reach the lowest-energy state.