Somewhat related: how do we not have separate words for these two meanings of ‘maximise’?
literally set something to its maximum value
try to set it to a big value, the bigger the better
Even what I’ve written for (2) doesn’t feel like it unambiguously captures the generally understood meaning of ‘maximise’ in common phrases like ‘RL algorithms maximise reward’ or ‘I’m trying to maximise my income’. I think the really precise version would be ‘try to affect something, having a preference ordering over outcomes which is monotonic in their size’.
But surely this concept deserves a single word. Does anyone know a good word for this, or feel like coining one?
Somewhat related: how do we not have separate words for these two meanings of ‘maximise’?
literally set something to its maximum value
try to set it to a big value, the bigger the better
Even what I’ve written for (2) doesn’t feel like it unambiguously captures the generally understood meaning of ‘maximise’ in common phrases like ‘RL algorithms maximise reward’ or ‘I’m trying to maximise my income’. I think the really precise version would be ‘try to affect something, having a preference ordering over outcomes which is monotonic in their size’.
But surely this concept deserves a single word. Does anyone know a good word for this, or feel like coining one?