The more wrong they are the more they n down. One of these days that strategy may pay off. Better than admitting you're incompetent egotistical dumbasses who have been acting like nazis.

you seem to reduce it down to pain. how is your notion of "pain" any different from not scoring well and being moved away from?

Some rewards can be worth certain penalties (pain) if within certain thresholds. Exhaustion fatigue can also play in.

You can of course boil them down to a single number, it just produces less nuanced types of decisions/operations, as it can’t differentiate between a cheap, painful, but bountiful choice and a expensive, no pain, mediocre choice.

I think there needs to also be a concept of death—penalties from which recovery is impossible. Nonergodicity seems to be a requirement for the development of antifragility.

thank you sir. you have my keyboard. i was expecting the top comment to be the exact opposite of what you said.