Poor Black-pill guy! He has a power to prevent all bad stuff, but clearly not enough capacity. He must always have to deal with problems like: “prevent beloved one from fatal accident or prevent a train full with strangers from crush” or “prevent ecological catastrophe or epidemic”? Even sleeping or eating for him are associated with a heavy opportunity cost of failing to save someone’s life. If he’s not a psycho, he is going to be overwhelmed and paralyzed with a feeling of guilt in less than few days.
Even if the black-pill guy is a psycho, he still has to deal with the other sort of problem, namely a computational complexity. If he’s going to do a brute-force simulation to find out a best sequence of actions for *every* situation, then he is going to be stuck simulating all the time, even if simulation takes only 0.00001% of the time required to live the situation. Because the number of possible action-sequences just explodes.
He must be damn good in algorithms and decision making in order to come up with a good answers to the questions: what situations to simulate and what not? until which depth shall i simulate a particular situation? when to stop collecting an options and make a commitment to one of them?
But he does not have to, does he? Even the best chess player do not go as far as they can, they need to play at some point and for that reason they consider only a few steps in advance.
Poor Black-pill guy! He has a power to prevent all bad stuff, but clearly not enough capacity. He must always have to deal with problems like: “prevent beloved one from fatal accident or prevent a train full with strangers from crush” or “prevent ecological catastrophe or epidemic”? Even sleeping or eating for him are associated with a heavy opportunity cost of failing to save someone’s life. If he’s not a psycho, he is going to be overwhelmed and paralyzed with a feeling of guilt in less than few days.
Very entertaining story, though.
Even if the black-pill guy is a psycho, he still has to deal with the other sort of problem, namely a computational complexity. If he’s going to do a brute-force simulation to find out a best sequence of actions for *every* situation, then he is going to be stuck simulating all the time, even if simulation takes only 0.00001% of the time required to live the situation. Because the number of possible action-sequences just explodes.
He must be damn good in algorithms and decision making in order to come up with a good answers to the questions: what situations to simulate and what not? until which depth shall i simulate a particular situation? when to stop collecting an options and make a commitment to one of them?
But he does not have to, does he? Even the best chess player do not go as far as they can, they need to play at some point and for that reason they consider only a few steps in advance.