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S2E08: Your Mind On Modeling & Active Inference, with Noor Sajid

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Active Inference - Is There Too Much Exploration or Too Little Exploration?

So under active inference, the planning objective boils down to these three main things. The exploitation or the extrinsic imperatives plus the information gain over both the states of the world and actual statistical contingencies about those environments that you are inhabiting. So in terms of whether there is too much exploitation or whether there istoo much exploration in the world, it entirely depends on how well you know the world. If you've got the right sort of beliefs, the rightsort of model and you have some sort of preference, so prior preference over the types of outcomes that you would like to consider, then there's a very nice balancing effect that you have.

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