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Michael Garfield & David Krakauer on Evolution, Information, and Jurassic Park

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The Exploit Trade-Off in AI

There's something really special about childhood and it makes humans in particular go way out on the end of the distribution in terms of how immature we are as children. Many of these are actually things that might look like bugs like not being very good at having focused attention or long-term planet why would we do that? So when I started doing the work in AI one of the really very general ideas that comes across again and again in computer science is this idea of the explore exploit trade-off. You can't get a system that is simultaneously going to optimize for actually being able to do things effectively, so you have to search through all the possibilities.

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