I would answer this the same way I did earlier in this thread, simply substituting in whatever problem you like for SAT in that example.
All feedback is feedback about the real world because the real world is the only place you can instantiate the computation to reason about “math land”.
Yes, obviously its going to change the world in some way to be run. But not any change anywhere makes it an optimizer_2. As defined, an optimizer_2 optimizes its environment. Changing something inside the computer does not make it an optimizer_2, and changing something outside without optimizing it doesnt either. Yes, the computer will inevitably cause some changes in its enviroment just by running, but what makes something an optimizer_2 is to systematically bring about a certain state of the environment. And this offers a potential solution other than by hardware engineering: If the feedback is coming from inside the computer, then what is incentivized are only states within the computer, and so only the computer is getting optimized.
I would answer this the same way I did earlier in this thread, simply substituting in whatever problem you like for SAT in that example.
All feedback is feedback about the real world because the real world is the only place you can instantiate the computation to reason about “math land”.
Yes, obviously its going to change the world in some way to be run. But not any change anywhere makes it an optimizer_2. As defined, an optimizer_2 optimizes its environment. Changing something inside the computer does not make it an optimizer_2, and changing something outside without optimizing it doesnt either. Yes, the computer will inevitably cause some changes in its enviroment just by running, but what makes something an optimizer_2 is to systematically bring about a certain state of the environment. And this offers a potential solution other than by hardware engineering: If the feedback is coming from inside the computer, then what is incentivized are only states within the computer, and so only the computer is getting optimized.