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Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #5438.
#5438·Dennis HackethalOP, 3 days agoI reply that “Variations are routinely programmed in genetic programming, no genuine creativity required.”
Neil replies:
Programming syntactic variations is easy. The problem is conjecturing which variations are explanatorily relevant given the problem and our background explanatory knowledge. The epistemological work includes conjecturing the relevant search space itself. Otherwise I can generate billions of mutations without discovering whether changing some feature destroys the explanation or merely changes its wording.