I think the generalized insight from Armstrong’s no free lunch paper is still underappreciated in that I sometimes see papers that, to me, seem to run up against this and fail to realize there’s a free variable in their mechanisms that needs to be fixed if they want them to not go off in random directions.
I think the generalized insight from Armstrong’s no free lunch paper is still underappreciated in that I sometimes see papers that, to me, seem to run up against this and fail to realize there’s a free variable in their mechanisms that needs to be fixed if they want them to not go off in random directions.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/LRYwpq8i9ym7Wuyoc/other-versions-of-no-free-lunch-in-value-learning
Thanks for the suggestion!
I didn’t know about this post. We’ll consider it. :)