@St_Rev @sarahdoingthing Afraid I don't know what you mean by this.
@A_P_Mason I agree that a random walk through solution space from a near-optimum is overwhelmingly likely to get worse.
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@A_P_Mason OTOH, living processes aren't random-walkers, but ferocious optimizers; this emerges from general selection. -
@St_Rev One might look at humans and say "How convenient that processes orthogonal to human values built things that care about them." -
@St_Rev But this seems like a metaphysical version of the Texas Gunslinger fallacy - drawing targets after shooting so every shot hit. -
@St_Rev Of course, if humans are such good optimisers that they completely overpower all the orthogonal processes around them, then -
@St_Rev my "neutrality isn't neutral" is a few hundred millennia too late. In that case, neutrality is long dead. -
@St_Rev As it happens, I don't think this is the case. Lives are short. Good things break quickly. The stupid lumps of rock reality threw -
@St_Rev together for no reason will far outlast anything I actually care about. -
@A_P_Mason Like I said before, everybody dies but "we" are still here. All part of the optimization process. - 21 more replies
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