Johnicholas comments on Measuring Optimization Power - Less Wrong

14 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 October 2008 09:44PM

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Comment author: Johnicholas 28 October 2008 12:44:29AM 1 point [-]

It seems to me that there's an aspect to this that isn't getting much attention: the domain.

Example domains include chess and Go, certainly. But probabilistic games surely should not be excluded. There is a spectrum of domains which go from "fair roulette" (which is not manipulatable by intelligence), though blackjack (slightly manipulable), and only at one end reach highly manipulatable games like chess and Go.

I'm sure Eliezer understands this, but his presentation doesn't spend much time on it.

For example, how do the calculations change when you admit that the domain may make some desirable situations impossible?