[extropy-chat] Bluff and the Darwin award

[Eliezer S. Yudkowsky]

Russell, your argument also proves that Deep Blue's programmers can't 
make changes to Deep Blue that improve its playing ability without 
actually testing it in many games against Kasparov.  One game can't 
possibly be enough to distinguish between potential changes because the 
win or loss only provides one bit of information.

The outside environment is not as complex as you think.  It just looks 
that way to you because you lack the computing power to exploit its 
regularities.

Your argument works nicely for natural selection.  Not elsewhere.

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence