I love this post, but there are several things in it that I have to take issue with.
You give the example of the asteroid and the tiger as things with different levels of intelligence, making the point that in both cases human beings are able to very rapidly respond with things that are outside the domain under which these entities are able to optimize. In the case of the asteroid, it can't optimize at all. In the case of the tiger, the human is more intelligent and so is better able to optimize over a wider domain.
However, the name of this blog is "ov... (read more)
I love this post, but there are several things in it that I have to take issue with.
You give the example of the asteroid and the tiger as things with different levels of intelligence, making the point that in both cases human beings are able to very rapidly respond with things that are outside the domain under which these entities are able to optimize. In the case of the asteroid, it can't optimize at all. In the case of the tiger, the human is more intelligent and so is better able to optimize over a wider domain.
However, the name of this blog is "ov... (read more)