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4-month salary to research empirical and theoretical extensions of Cohen & Hutter’s pessimistic/conservative RL agent

$3.3K

Funder

Long-Term Future Fund (LTFF)wiki

Recipient

David Reber

Program

Long-Term Future Fund Grant Rounds

Date

Jan 2021

Data source

Source

funds.effectivealtruism.org↗

Notes

[Long-Term Future Fund] 4-month salary to research empirical and theoretical extensions of Cohen & Hutter’s pessimistic/conservative RL agent

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