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Re:Generally capable agents emerge from open-ended play by lazide on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @05:41PM (#27978015)
Some rewards can be worth certain penalties (pain) if within certain thresholds. Exhaustion fatigue can also play in.

You can of course boil them down to a single number, it just produces less nuanced types of decisions/operations, as it can’t differentiate between a cheap, painful, but bountiful choice and a expensive, no pain, mediocre choice.

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Re:Generally capable agents emerge from open-ended play by jkhdigital on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @07:00PM (#27978645)
I think there needs to also be a concept of death—penalties from which recovery is impossible. Nonergodicity seems to be a requirement for the development of antifragility.
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