Hi Jim, I think that No Free Lunch is not about the impossibility to find new efficiencies. Rather, No free lunch is about what happens after this new efficiency has been implemented. Once you implement this new efficiency and once you can deal better with X, you have automatically limited yourself from not being able to deal with the_opposite_of(X). There is no free lunch in that sense. You cannot implement a new efficiency without losing the capability to deal with something else.
Danko On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 11:32 AM Jim Bromer <[email protected]> wrote: > A 'free lunch' is possible because human beings do not know everything. > That means that new efficiencies can be discovered. Even though you may > discuss a frame work as if it were the only basis to achieve a goal the > argument does not prove the premise that the particular frame work you have > in mind is truly the optimal basis of measuring all possible efficiencies. > And the fact that the arguments tend to hinge on various fantasies (suppose > you had a compressor that was optimal for given corpus) make the arguments > a little unhinged. So there is a free lunch, but you have to do some > honest work to find it. Or maybe it is the beneficiaries of the workers who > are getting the free lunch. > *Artificial General Intelligence List <https://agi.topicbox.com/latest>* > / AGI / see discussions <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi> + > participants <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/members> + delivery > options <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription> Permalink > <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Ta433301e9ac5fb42-Mde4317a33833c70ec58abafc> > -- Dr. Danko Nikolić www.danko-nikolic.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/danko-nikolic/ ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Ta433301e9ac5fb42-Mef955f109bc3e8dbcc6ba1ea Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
