To give a concrete example: I’ve just finished my first year of a PhD program. And I’ve spent a good proportion of that first year agonising with myself over the question: “What should my thesis topic be?”. Every time someone suggested a topic or I thought about narrowing down on an area a little voice in my head would go “But what if that’s not the best thing for you to research? What if this other thing was better?”
This sounds like the classic exploration/exploitation tradeoff, which occurs any time you’re trying to optimize a system. Maybe we should apply some of the research in this area to our lives as EAs. (Although I’m not sure how practical that would be.)
This sounds like the classic exploration/exploitation tradeoff, which occurs any time you’re trying to optimize a system. Maybe we should apply some of the research in this area to our lives as EAs. (Although I’m not sure how practical that would be.)