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Oscar_Cunningham comments on Open thread, July 21-27, 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 13 August 2014 08:32:06AM 0 points [-]

IIRC last time the winners were programs that had some random element in their code and "got lucky" (in the sense that if the tournament had been run multiple times and the results averaged, they would not have won). So maybe you should guard against this by performing sufficiently many copies of the tournament.