Re: Mike Perry's work on self-improving AI

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From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky <sentience@pobox.com>
>if we really have perfect memories
>stored, why haven't such selection pressures resulted in perfect
performance?

Because perfect performers (with full time photographic memory) have difficulty with creativity, innovation, and abstract learning -- aptitudes which enhance the ability to solve new problems. Selection pressures attenuate perfect memory in favor of problem solving capability.

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