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As I've said to others it highlights one weakness with the model - that it will always say a longer possible search is better because it raises your odds to success and the model features no cost for searching. When you add a cost to delay the appropriate time to spend exploring drops massively.

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it highlights one weakness with the model

By applying the strategy in an unintelligent way which seems designed to make the model fail.

it will always say a longer possible search is better because it raises your odds to success and the model features no cost for searching

That's kind of the whole point of this tradeoff and of the analogies used with it. That there is a cost for searching and not "finding."

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