MorgneticField

This is mostly my attempt to understand Scott Garrabrant's Geometric Rationality series. He hasn't written much about it here recently (maybe he's off starting video game companies to save the world). I find the ideas very intriguing, but I also found his explanation from 3 years ago hard to follow....

People talk about Kelly betting and expectation maximization as though they're alternate strategies for the same problem. Actually, they're each the best option to pick for different classes of problems. Understanding when to use Kelly betting and when to use expectation maximization is critical. Most of the ideas for this...