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Another one you might like is the Amazonism 'disagree and commit': https://www.amazon.com/p/feature/z6o9g6sysxur57t https://www.amazon.com/p/feature/z6o9g6sysxu
by gwern 7y ago
Another one you might like is the Amazonism 'disagree and commit': https://www.amazon.com/p/feature/z6o9g6sysxur57t https://www.amazon.com/p/feature/z6o9g6sysxur57t
I ( https://www.gwern.net/Timing#try-try-again-but-less-less https://www.gwern.net/Timing#try-try-again-but-less-less ) see it as a kind of bandit as well, but specifically, Thompson sampling, because you can interpret groups of people with strong but inconsistent beliefs individually as collectively implementing a Bayesian distribution, and then individuals going off and following what seems to then like the most profitable opportunity is equivalent to Thompson sampling: https://people.csail.mit.edu/pkrafft/papers/krafft-thesis-final.pdf https://people.csail.mit.edu/pkrafft/papers/krafft-thesis-fi...