Re: [agi] There is such a thing as a Free Lunch

[Jim Bromer]

A 'free lunch' is possible because human beings do not know everything. That 
means that new efficiencies can be discovered.  Even though you may discuss a 
frame work as if it were the only basis to achieve a goal the argument does not 
prove the premise that the particular frame work you have in mind is truly the 
optimal basis of measuring all possible efficiencies.  And the fact that the 
arguments tend to hinge on various fantasies (suppose you had a compressor that 
was optimal for given corpus) make the arguments a little unhinged.  So there 
is a free lunch, but you have to do some honest work to find it. Or maybe it is 
the beneficiaries of the workers who are getting the free lunch.
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