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Nice take. It feels like the underlying question is "what should humans make a priority?". But we lack hindsight: it's a multi-armed bandit problem[0].

So the strategy should be in this case: let's try, and move towards what benefit us the most, and run away progressively from those things that aren't doing so.

Of course, how do we define "benefit" is the tricky part that's left to the reader...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-armed_bandit



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