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Maximizing your number of future options is not always a good idea. Sometimes fewer options are better provided that these are more useful options I guess I'm
by mehwoot 9y ago
Maximizing your number of future options is not always a good idea. Sometimes fewer options are better provided that these are more useful options
I guess I'm missing something, because this seems to negate the entire point... isn't the point that number of future options is a good measure of "more useful options"?
- TuringTest 9y agoI think that sentence is meant to highlight one weakness of that measure. It may be a good heuristic in many circumstances, but if you have direct knowledge about the problem domain (like in the football players example), applying this specific heuristic may give better results than using the generic one. To solve difficult problems with approximate methods, you usually need to combine several heuristics anyway.