Here it is: The No Free Lunch theorem for dummies. See particularly the second section: Sidenote: Why NFL has basically nothing to do with AGI and the first link to Yudkowsky’s post on essentially the same thing.
I think the thing about your descripton is that S → V is not going to be chosen at random in our world.
The no free lunch theorem states in essence (I’m pretty sure) that no classifier can both classify a big gray thing with tusks and big ears as both an elephant and not-an-elephant. That’s fine, because the remainder of an AGI system can choose (by any other criteria) to make elephants either a goal or an anti-goal or neither.
If the NFL theorem applied to general intelligences, it seems like humans couldn’t love elephants at one time and hate them at a later time, with no major changes to their perceptual systems. It proves too much.
Here it is: The No Free Lunch theorem for dummies. See particularly the second section: Sidenote: Why NFL has basically nothing to do with AGI and the first link to Yudkowsky’s post on essentially the same thing.
I think the thing about your descripton is that S → V is not going to be chosen at random in our world.
The no free lunch theorem states in essence (I’m pretty sure) that no classifier can both classify a big gray thing with tusks and big ears as both an elephant and not-an-elephant. That’s fine, because the remainder of an AGI system can choose (by any other criteria) to make elephants either a goal or an anti-goal or neither.
If the NFL theorem applied to general intelligences, it seems like humans couldn’t love elephants at one time and hate them at a later time, with no major changes to their perceptual systems. It proves too much.