Manfred comments on Open thread, July 28 - August 3, 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Manfred 29 July 2014 09:30:28AM *  5 points [-]

Have you read Wei Dai's posts already? E.g. here and here.

My one-sentence description is "find the best strategy, then follow it."

If you want a more formal approach, cousin it's post is probably a good place to start - if you like that, there are more posts by him that might be a good idea to read.

Comment author: cousin_it 29 July 2014 10:26:45PM 4 points [-]

Yup. The simplest formulation I have is this one.