Re: Why I was wrong about the nuclear option

Posted by glen ep ropella on Dec 04, 2013; 10:08pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Why-I-was-wrong-about-the-nuclear-option-tp7584425p7584434.html

On 12/04/2013 09:46 AM, Nick Thompson wrote:
> if you take for granted that the world is not the sort of place that changes
> on a dime.  And where else could you have learned that save by induction.  

Perhaps the fallacy doesn't lie in the general concept of reinforcement
learning, but in the formulation of what "induction" means?

I found it interesting that this guy was invited to give a talk at a
local CFI meeting:

   Matt Thornton on Aliveness in Martial Arts
   http://youtu.be/WojPLwqYpzA

the point, of course, being the difference between [un]predictability
and the tightness of the coupling between your innards and your environment.

--
glen ep ropella -- 971-255-2847

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