
Episode 27: Noam Brown, FAIR, on achieving human-level performance in poker and Diplomacy, and the power of spending compute at inference time
Generally Intelligent
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Can You Relax Constraints Too Much?
Every hand has a constraint and some of these hands you can relax the constraints because you're not really going to end up in this situation with that hand anyway. So it's kind of like if you search less through some instead of space, these hands that you won't deal with, then you have more kind of search capacity to search through the relevant ones. It's not about becoming more balanced this series, it's about coming up with a stronger strategy. The key idea is that if you relax those constraints too much, then you might end up in an explitable strategy.
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