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thomblake comments on What's the name of this cognitive bias? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: thomblake 12 July 2013 12:51:21PM 0 points [-]

Well, imagine a planning algorithm that has no memory - then a heuristic like that (maybe with some amount of randomness to avoid cycles and such) might be your best bet.