Ben_Jones comments on Aiming at the Target - Less Wrong

8 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 26 October 2008 04:47PM

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Comment author: Ben_Jones 27 October 2008 12:59:59PM 0 points [-]

an outcome that ranks high in your preference ordering

Well if Garry's wins are in the centre of your preference ordering circle of course you'll lose! Some fighting spirit please!

Oh, and if something maximising entropy is a valid optimisation process, then surely everything is an optimisation process and the term becomes useless? Optimisation processes lead (locally) away from maximal entropy, not towards it, right?