If you see the optimisation score as being attached to a particular system (agent+code+hardware+power available), then there isn’t a problem. It’s only if you want to talk about the optimisation power of an algorithm in a platonic sense, that the definition fails.
Essentially I agree that that particular objection is largely ineffectual.
Upvoted because admitting to error is rare and admirable, even on Less Wrong :-)
If you see the optimisation score as being attached to a particular system (agent+code+hardware+power available), then there isn’t a problem. It’s only if you want to talk about the optimisation power of an algorithm in a platonic sense, that the definition fails.
Upvoted because admitting to error is rare and admirable, even on Less Wrong :-)