So your point is that, in both cases, by choosing a decision algorithm, one also gets to choose where this algorithm is being instantiated?
To clarify, it’s the algorithm itself that chooses how it behaves. So I’m not talking about how algorithm’s instantiation depends on the way programmer chooses to write it, instead I’m talking about how algorithm’s instantiation depends on the choices that the algorithm itself makes, where we are talking about a particular algorithm that’s already written. Less mysteriously, the idea of algorithm’s decisions influencing things describes a step in the algorithm, it’s how the algorithm operates, by figuring out something we could call “how algorithm’s decisions influence outcomes”. The algorithm then takes that thing and does further computations that depend on it.
To clarify, it’s the algorithm itself that chooses how it behaves. So I’m not talking about how algorithm’s instantiation depends on the way programmer chooses to write it, instead I’m talking about how algorithm’s instantiation depends on the choices that the algorithm itself makes, where we are talking about a particular algorithm that’s already written. Less mysteriously, the idea of algorithm’s decisions influencing things describes a step in the algorithm, it’s how the algorithm operates, by figuring out something we could call “how algorithm’s decisions influence outcomes”. The algorithm then takes that thing and does further computations that depend on it.