Emile comments on Measuring Optimization Power - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: Emile 28 October 2008 10:59:20AM 1 point [-]

I agree with Tim that the presence of a deterministic solution shouldn't be enough to say whether there's an optimization process going on. But then, Eliezer didn't say "Since there's a deterministic solution, no optimization is going on": it's more like "it's possible that no optimization is going on". Optimization power isn't required, but might be useful.