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Strategy
Adaptive high-level planning
Definition
Mechanism
A high-level plan to achieve one or more goals under conditions of uncertainty. Unlike a fixed Plan, a Strategy is adaptive and focuses on 'How to win' rather than just 'What steps to take'.
Invariants
- States what it optimises for, and what would count as having won.
- States the observation that would cause it to be revised. A course with no revision trigger is a Plan.
Risks
Failure modes
None stated.
Relationships
Builds on
References
Infrastructure
An ordered sequence of steps to achieve a goal
Used by
References
Concept blending with novelty and value acceptance
Dividing complexity into manageable units
Expansion of cognitive capability through recursive decomposition of concepts into contract-bounded sub-concepts
Society
When verification fails, fall back to inline definition
Breaking local optima
Rapid decision cycle: Observe, Orient, Decide, Act
Run subtasks simultaneously and aggregate
Society
A public commitment that states in advance what evidence would require revising it
Learning via cheap, instructive failure
Composes with
Agent that architects mechanistic design proposals
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