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Deep Anti-Determinism - by Lydia Nottingham - pronotre

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This machinery matters to me…

This machinery matters to me… Say there’s some event you care about, E. You want E to happen. Initially, your default policy is π_0, and you estimate P(E | π_0) < 1. But since you want E to happen, you come up with a new plan, π_1, to make E more likely. Now you calculate P(E | π_1) and check: are you satisfied? If not, you devise a new plan, π_2, and calculate P(E | π_2). If each plan is better than the last, you’ll obtain a monotone increasing sequence of probability forecasts. By Monotone Convergence Theorem, this sequence will converge to sup(P(E | π_k)). There’s an intuition going…

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