In any reasonably large space of possibilities, the actual optimum is usually really weird. There is no sharp line between really healthy cooking; biochemical manufacture of medicine; and bootstraping medical nanotech. If a fruit gnome has a dangerous or unhealthy job, and would quit that job if they could afford it, does spelling out next weeks lottery numbers in some pattern or code that the gnome will understand count as a healthy diet? Optimums are weird things.
In any reasonably large space of possibilities, the actual optimum is usually really weird. There is no sharp line between really healthy cooking; biochemical manufacture of medicine; and bootstraping medical nanotech. If a fruit gnome has a dangerous or unhealthy job, and would quit that job if they could afford it, does spelling out next weeks lottery numbers in some pattern or code that the gnome will understand count as a healthy diet? Optimums are weird things.
I agree about the weird-optimum point, but I have to say I don’t understand how lottery numbers can be a diet.