A Metaphysical Analogy for Objective Functions
beffjezos · x · 2026-07-15
The author puts forward a concise viewpoint: "expected continuity" can be viewed as the loss function set by God, while everything else is merely a surrogate loss.
This is a highly abstract analogy without detailed elaboration. The core idea is that once you understand the true optimization target of a system, many phenomena become easily explainable.
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