timtyler comments on Value is Fragile - Less Wrong
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Counter-example 1: gene-frequency maximization in biology. A tremendously simple principle with enormous explanatory power.
Counter-example 2: Entropy maximization. Another tremendously simple principle with enormous explanatory power.
Note that both are maximization principles - the very type of principle whose limitations you are arguing for.