> one newly synthesized heuristic kept rising in Worth, and finally I looked at it. It was doing no real work at all, but just before the credit/blame assignment phase, it quickly cycled through all the new concepts, and when it found one with high Worth it put its own name down as one of the creditors. Nothing is "wrong" with that policy, except that in the long ran it fails to lead to better results.

Does this already count as an inner optimizer?

(from “The Nature of Heuristics” p. 34)