Eliezer, when you’re lost in an unfamiliar neighbourhood, do sit back, relax and wait for evidence of your location to come in? Obviously not, since you’re still alive and haven’t yet starved to death. Well guess what, none of my direct ancestors starved to death before they reproduced either. That’s a scientific fact, and it just goes to show that when it comes to the thinking game, nothing succeeds like success.
And success is not the same as accuracy, except in a mystical world of spherical cows of uniform density. In the real world, the value of a perfectly correct decision which takes an infinate amount of time to evaluate is exactly 0. [Note the lack of units—renormalize if you dare.] I have empirical data showing that this world contains distinctly heterogenous cows. Reprints available upon request.
Eliezer, when you’re lost in an unfamiliar neighbourhood, do sit back, relax and wait for evidence of your location to come in? Obviously not, since you’re still alive and haven’t yet starved to death. Well guess what, none of my direct ancestors starved to death before they reproduced either. That’s a scientific fact, and it just goes to show that when it comes to the thinking game, nothing succeeds like success.
And success is not the same as accuracy, except in a mystical world of spherical cows of uniform density. In the real world, the value of a perfectly correct decision which takes an infinate amount of time to evaluate is exactly 0. [Note the lack of units—renormalize if you dare.] I have empirical data showing that this world contains distinctly heterogenous cows. Reprints available upon request.