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#5573·Dennis HackethalOP, about 4 hours agoI don't think the program needs to choose one of the surviving variants if our current knowledge gives us no reason to choose.
It does. Preference formation is the point of the program.
Sometimes the rational state really is that we don't yet know which variant is right. We can continue developing and testing them until we find something that differentiates them.
Then we’d need to find a way to feed the results of the tests back into the program. Tests would somehow need to be formally tied to HTV. The program has to at least be able to tell the user which preference to form (short of the user not typing in the variant he’s already decided he doesn’t want, eg because of a negative test case).
It does. Preference formation is the point of the program.
I don't think preference formation requires the program to always select exactly one variant.
If several variants are equally hard to vary given everything I currently know, then “equally hard to vary” is itself the result of the comparison. I don't currently have a rational reason from HTV to prefer one over the others.
I don't think the program should invent a preference when the current problem situation doesn't give us one. The variants can remain competing possibilities until we learn something that differentiates them.