Dr. Birdbrain

(cross-post from my blog) This post is the first in a series of notes on Reinforcement Learning. In the past few months, I have been learning about this topic, and I have found it completely fascinating. Aside from the computational beauty and usefulness of the algorithms, I find that it...

(This article is cross-posted from my blog) Imagine a world in which agents may interact, but may not coordinate in an enforceable way. Agents may communicate, but there is no mechanism to hold another agent accountable to commitments reached while communicating. In this world, all conflicts of interest between agents...