so many problems we face boil down to timing explore/exploit decisions; too late, and you've optimized-for-optionality your way into scarcity. too early, and you've picked a too-small local maxima, sacrificing huge potentials for gain
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RT @alexandrosM
Fundamentally, the debate is about what is called the "exploration / exploitation dilemma". It's a tradeoff studied in many disciplines, when an agent has to decide whether to do more …
https://twitter.com/alexandrosM/status/1441778240834523144
every biological system has evolved precisely to be able to make these decisions in their ecological niche; problems arise when they grow out of it, and their intuitions are no longer adequate
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RT @pee_zombie
thinking about how the explore/exploit dichotomy (ht @ulkar_aghayeva @tszzl) captures the dynamics of our lives, thru the lens of the humble slime mold, physarum polycephalum
we share a fractally-biphasic lifecycle, w/ nested…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1441834524028162048
