Ah, I didn’t mean to ask about the designing part, but moreso about how you use the word optimize in your definition when it comes to ‘optimizing from scratch’, which might get a little recursive.
Oh, my mistake. I should have said my definition of “optimizer” was “something such that there is a method of describing a change to it to concretely describe a system that scores unusually highly on another function, for a wide range of functions, in a way that’s significantly shorter description length than specifying a system that achieves that score from scratch.”
Ah, I didn’t mean to ask about the designing part, but moreso about how you use the word optimize in your definition when it comes to ‘optimizing from scratch’, which might get a little recursive.
Oh, my mistake. I should have said my definition of “optimizer” was “something such that there is a method of describing a change to it to concretely describe a system that scores unusually highly on another function, for a wide range of functions, in a way that’s significantly shorter description length than specifying a system that achieves that score from scratch.”
I’ve edited the post.