A Minimal Active Inference Agent · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1503.04187/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTA Minimal Active Inference Agent — mentioned by eli_gottliebhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12320613urn:hackerpapers:mention:1503.04187:12320613Fri, 19 Aug 2016 15:18:28 GMT<p>&gt;&quot;Hard&quot; problems are multi-optimization, where even the definitions aren&#x27;t very clear: &quot;learn as much as possible and live a happy life while making a productive living for yourself&quot;. Turn that into an objective function... Minimize the informational free-energy of the product of the multiplicatively inverted brain-to-body reinforcement-learned energy function of reward with the brain-to-body reinforcement-learned energy function of punishment, via active inference? Beh, those words are messy. The point is to talk about a Gibbs distribution with energy functions Reward(X, Y) and Punishment(X…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1503.04187/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.AI