Maybe it's semantics but interacting with a simulation of the world is actually more important. In a pure sense, this doesn't require any actual real world inte

Maybe it's semantics but interacting with a simulation of the world is actually more important. In a pure sense, this doesn't require any actual real world interaction. This concept is usually referred to offline and off-policy reinforcement learning. If you're saying that interaction in any sense is important, I'd very much agree that unsupervised learning and supervised learning aren't equipped to handle reinforcement learning problems. Correct framing of a problem is necessary to achieve a desired property like causality.