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You might be able to get around this by following Bayesian methods to choose an action as long as P(Bayes' theorem)>.5, and then scrapping your entire decision-making algorithm and building a new one from scratch when this stops being true. But how do you decide on a new decision-making algorithm once your old decision-making algorithm has failed you?