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Comment by uoaei

24 days ago

No science detected.

Without comparison to some null hypothesis (a random policy), this article is hogwash.

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zahlman  24 days ago

Given that all the other agents failed to find any creatures, it's hard to imagine that a random policy would except by extreme coincidence.

  • TOMDM  23 days ago

    It is possible to be consistently wrong in a way that randomness is not.

    For some problems, randomness outperforms incompetent reasoning

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