On a more serious note, you may be interested in Marcus Hutter’s 2007 paper “The Loss Rank Principle for Model Selection”. It’s about modeling, not about action selection, but there’s a loss function involved, so there’s a pragmatist viewpoint here, too.
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On a more serious note, you may be interested in Marcus Hutter’s 2007 paper “The Loss Rank Principle for Model Selection”. It’s about modeling, not about action selection, but there’s a loss function involved, so there’s a pragmatist viewpoint here, too.