Marginalium
A note in the margins
January 9, 2023
Marginalium
My commentary on something from elsewhere on the web.
Motivating creativity:
the … optimal reward scheme is maximally uncertain—the agent receives transfers for success, but their distribution has an extreme variance
It makes you try lots of things. Is this surprising? It doesn’t feel surprising, but as the author notes, does:
shed light on the non-transparent incentives used by online platforms, such as YouTube
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