Comment by Alexandre_Passos on If You Demand Magic, Magic Won't Help · 2008-03-23T17:07:12.000Z · LW · GW

Eliezer, do you think that this search for magic and mystery always outside the known world is some side-effect of human reinforcement learning?

As far as I know it could be a loose knob on the tuning device for the exploit/explore tradeoff.