It doesn’t particularly apply in this case, since the argument is that randomness is the best available option for now, because intelligence doesn’t work yet for this case.
But pjeby isn’t even saying that – even reading completely random books, which AFAICT he doesn’t advocate, invokes a powerful optimization process (writers and publishers).
You always do the random thing relative to the options you are given. That doesn’t change the problem, as far as I can see, just applies it to a different situation
You can’t literally make only random actions. You can’t make random muscle movements. You may use random long-term goals, which can be analogized with being a fanatic, or middle-term goals, analogy with a crazy person, or random short-term goals, analogous to being clinically mad. In any case, whatever I could mean by random action, it’s necessarily already quite abstract, selected from few intelligent options.
But pjeby isn’t even saying that – even reading completely random books, which AFAICT he doesn’t advocate, invokes a powerful optimization process (writers and publishers).
You always do the random thing relative to the options you are given. That doesn’t change the problem, as far as I can see, just applies it to a different situation
Point taken; still, different from my very literal interpretation of letting a random number generator decide what you need.
You can’t literally make only random actions. You can’t make random muscle movements. You may use random long-term goals, which can be analogized with being a fanatic, or middle-term goals, analogy with a crazy person, or random short-term goals, analogous to being clinically mad. In any case, whatever I could mean by random action, it’s necessarily already quite abstract, selected from few intelligent options.