Is there a difference between what you call optimizer and what Paul Christiano calls daemon?
I think that everything that Paul would call a daemon, I would call an optimiser.
Things that I would call optimisers that Paul would (probably?) not call daemons:
A program that ran gradient descent in order to solve a linear regression problem.
The UCB algorithm that optimises payoffs in multi-armed bandit problems.
Is there a difference between what you call optimizer and what Paul Christiano calls daemon?
I think that everything that Paul would call a daemon, I would call an optimiser.
Things that I would call optimisers that Paul would (probably?) not call daemons:
A program that ran gradient descent in order to solve a linear regression problem.
The UCB algorithm that optimises payoffs in multi-armed bandit problems.