Certainly for the true environment, the optimal policy exists and you could follow it. The only thing I’d say differently is that you’re pretty sure the laws of physics won’t change tomorrow. But more realistic forms of uncertainty doom us to either forego knowledge (and potentially good policies) or destroy ourselves. If one slowed down science in certain areas for reasons along the lines of the vulnerable world hypothesis, that would be taking the “safe stance” in this trade off.
Certainly for the true environment, the optimal policy exists and you could follow it. The only thing I’d say differently is that you’re pretty sure the laws of physics won’t change tomorrow. But more realistic forms of uncertainty doom us to either forego knowledge (and potentially good policies) or destroy ourselves. If one slowed down science in certain areas for reasons along the lines of the vulnerable world hypothesis, that would be taking the “safe stance” in this trade off.
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