The separation principle: where do beliefs and desires come from?
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TLDR: Psychology, economics, and other disciplines describe agents as systems driven by beliefs and desires. This post argues that the belief-desire view can be derived from classic theorems from optimal control and reinforcement learning. This suggests seeing beliefs and desires as properties of optimal policies rather than as assumptions from folk psychology.IntroductionOne way to think about agents is as "systems that act for reasons".[1] This compact statement can be interpreted as encapsula
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