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Bill de hÓra wrote, > We're always optimizing, just not always optimizing for performance. > For the hillclimbers among us: > > http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/wolpert95no.html Fascinating. Go back twenty years to the late 70's and you'll find a flurry of papers debunking Popper's "truthlikeness" metric on more or less exactly the same grounds: given a metric which gives you a ranking of theories by accuracy, you can always derive (in a reasonably non-perverse way) other metrics which give you arbitrary reorderings of that ranking. Google for "Graham Oddie truthlikeness". Cheers, Miles
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