Exploring and exploiting are more interdependent than toy models like the n-armed bandit allow for. The time to eat your brain, like Dennett’s sea squirt, is when you are sure that your world will never change again, i.e. never, especially in the accelerated times we are living through. Always be exploring; exploiting furnishes the resources to explore more.
Exploring and exploiting are more interdependent than toy models like the n-armed bandit allow for. The time to eat your brain, like Dennett’s sea squirt, is when you are sure that your world will never change again, i.e. never, especially in the accelerated times we are living through. Always be exploring; exploiting furnishes the resources to explore more.
They don’t have to be one or the other for there to be a tradeoff!