Bo2 comments on Lawful Creativity - Less Wrong

19 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 November 2008 07:54PM

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Comment author: Bo2 09 November 2008 09:25:17AM 1 point [-]

If you are constantly surprised by solutions that are high in you preference ordering but low in your search ordering, that is a problem with your search ordering. If your search ordering is correct, creativity is useless.

Comment author: DanielLC 18 October 2012 07:02:26PM 7 points [-]

If your search ordering is your preference ordering, either you're looking at a very simple problem or you have godlike intellect. In the first case, creativity is unneeded. In the second, no solution will appear creative to you, but your solutions will tend to appear very creative to mere mortals.

Creativity is having a good search ordering.