I think it is dopey to be against a local optimum without even giving the hint of a proposal of a framework for getting something better.
Isn't there some theorem that random changes on complex systems at local optima have vanishingly small probability of being better? That the space of parameter space that represents improvements is tiny compared to the whole space? I know that random modifications of programs, circuits, and motors behave this way, I haven't done double blind studies but I've made lots more changes that degraded than that helped.
Actually I've talked about this quite extensively in the past. I kind of assume the standard arguments should have been background knowledge especially since many people here read Moldbug.
See The Anti-Singularity for example.
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And voting adds legitimacy to it.
Thank you.
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