On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 9:09 PM, William Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > They would get less credit from the human supervisor. Let me expand on > what I meant about the economic competition. Let us say vmprogram A > makes a copy of itself, called A', with some purposeful tweaks, trying > to make itself more efficient.
So, this process performs optimization, A has a goal that it tries to express in form of A'. What is the problem with the algorithm that A uses? If this algorithm is stupid (in a technical sense), A' is worse than A and we can detect that. But this means that in fact, A' doesn't do its job and all the search pressure comes from program B that ranks the performance of A or A'. This generate-blindly-or-even-stupidly-and-check is a very inefficient algorithm. If, on the other hand, A happens to be a good program, then A' has a good change of being better than A, and anyway A has some understanding of what 'better' means, then what is the role of B? B adds almost no additional pressure, almost everything is done by A. How do you distribute the optimization pressure between generating programs (A) and checking programs (B)? Why do you need to do that at all, what is the benefit of generating and checking separately, compared to reliably generating from the same point (A alone)? If generation is not reliable enough, it probably won't be useful as optimization pressure anyway. -- Vladimir Nesov [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://causalityrelay.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=106510220-47b225 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
