timtyler comments on Efficient Cross-Domain Optimization - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 22 February 2012 03:31:24PM *  0 points [-]

Intelligence, in other words, is efficient optimization.

IMO, there's already plenty of space to include any efficiency criteria in the function being optimised.

So: there's no need to say "efficient" - but what you do, conventionally, need to say is something about the ability to solve a range of different types of problem. Include that and then consistently inefficient solutions get penalized automatically on problems where efficiency is specified in the utility function.