The universe presumably isn’t optimised for intelligence, since most organisms are baceria, etc, and isn’t optimised for life, since most of it is barren. See Penrose’s argument against the Anthropic Principle in Road to Reality.
we don’t know whether there is a concisely describable objective function that we are the optimum of
I think Wei_Dai was trying to suggest an objective function beyond our ken.
The universe presumably isn’t optimised for intelligence, since most organisms are baceria, etc, and isn’t optimised for life, since most of it is barren. See Penrose’s argument against the Anthropic Principle in Road to Reality.
I think Wei_Dai was trying to suggest an objective function beyond our ken.