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Vaniver comments on Have you changed your mind lately? On what? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Vaniver 05 June 2012 11:36:54PM 3 points [-]

The best requirement to relax, in my opinion, is that of optimality (which, incidentally, is a strong reason to be an adaptation executor rather than a utility maximizer!). My professional research is into optimization heuristics that just focus on getting good solutions and not worrying if they're the best ones- which allows tackling problems that are immensely larger. For many problems, it's simply not worth the time to ensure that no better solution exists- it's a lot of effort for little payout.