Awareness of unawareness
Uncertainty: exploring the current hypotheses inside your hypothesis set.
ℋt = {h₁, h₂, h₃}
Unawareness: the feeling that the correct hypothesis h* is not in the set at all.
P(h* ∉ ℋt) > 0
What does the agent do next?
We frame this not as search but as an information need: keep seeking information vs commit.
What alternative explanations matter?
Anything else that could cause the same information-seeking behavior without awareness of unawareness: ordinary uncertainty, low confidence, noise, missing evidence, misunderstanding, random exploration, a generic "always reconsider" strategy, search-cost differences.
Sequential decision-making
A decision problem is sequential when the agent does not choose only once; the agent faces later decision points whose circumstances may depend on earlier choices, information, or changes in preference.
bt action⟶ new evidence update⟶ bt+1 ⋯ commit⟶ final choice after the end⇢ learning
The final choice may or may not prompt action. The learning that happens after the end is outside our span (for now).
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Bounded agent
A bounded agent cannot consider every possible explanation, action, or future consequence due to limited resources.
What is h? tentative
Currently working on this — August 8, 2026