On Wednesday 22 October 2008 07:46:51 pm Ian Kelly wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Pavitra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Proto-proposal / kibbutz: Instead of having Bayes make proposals > > till it finds one it will vote for (>= 50%), have it make > > proposals for a fixed amount of real time and pick the one it > > likes most strongly. This should result in more Bayes-confident > > proposals (given a long enough fixed time), which will hopefully > > also be more > > human-acceptable. > > I agree that it should spend a large amount of real time coming up > with a proposal. Like, say, a month.
I don't think it's reasonable to ask its maintainers to commit a large percentage of their CPU resources to this when the same resources could instead be spent finding potatoes and aliens. How long does Bayes take right now to come up with a proposal?
