Chapter 2489 Perfect Decisioning

Chapter 2489 Perfect Decisioning

In other words, it was a contest of whether he should go for a top-down approach when creating the technique or a bottom-up one.

"Hard to say, I'm not partial to either way." He stirred where he sat, immersed in deep thought. "I would suspect that in different circumstances, different approaches are most optimal."

How was he to discern which approach was most optimal in what circumstance, however?

Furthermore, even if he got the right approach, how would he know whether his created technique was the most optimal creation?

It was possible that whatever technique he ended up creating in a given situation, while good enough, was not the optimal or the best possible technique.

Perhaps other Martial Artists would be satisfied with just this alone, but not Rui. n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

"Whatever technique I create must be the best possible technique I could possibly create at that moment." His eyes narrowed with determination. "I will not tolerate sub-optimal outcomes."

Project Water was about optimal and maximal adaptive evolution.

He would settle for nothing but the absolute best.

Nothing less was tolerable.

"I need to find a way to objectively ensure that the created technique is objectively the most antithetical technique that I could have created for that circumstance."

This was an extremely tall-task.

"Then there's the matter of how this system of thought will interact with the Yggdrasil System."

The Yggdrasil System also adaptively evolved to his opponents, like all his systems did. It was able to decipher what was the most antithetical environment to his opponent based on evolutionary evaluations.

There was an overlap and thus a conflict between the Tree of Life predictive model and this new technique-creation system of thought.

"...This new technique creation system of thought needs to include all of this and take it into account," Rui realized. "It needs to input variables such as the VOID algorithm, SOUL System, and the Tree of Life and make a decision based on that."

Against beasts and monsters, domains were the most optimal for antithetical adaptive evolution. Thus, any technique he would create with this hypothetical technique-creation system of thought was going to be a domain, one that would be decided by the Tree of Life System of thought.

He needed to ensure that the protocols of this new system of thought were flexible enough to smoothly integrate into his Martial Art without conflicting with it. "So to sum up, the system of thought needs to simulate each possible technique and not only objectively measure which possible technique is most antithetical to my opponent while taking into account not just them and the environment, but also my Martial Body and Art."

It was a truly ambitious system of thought when he summed up his model for the new system of thought. "For one, I still haven't figured out how I'm going to objectively measure how antithetical a technique is."

Antitheticality was not an empirical or even a theoretical parameter.

It was a vague and ambiguous concept.

Thankfully, Rui had given a lot of thought about what his Martial Path meant in a scientific context.

"In the context of Project Water, it means maximizing the probability of victory in any given circumstance against any given opponent."

Thus, antitheticality was simply probability distribution. He would need to measure what possible technique, what possible permutation and combination of actions, had the highest probability of victory. "It won't be easy, but I will need to flesh out exactly how I'm going to increase the probability of victory," Rui mused. "Most likely, it will be some sort of mathematical parameter inferred from empirical data derived from a hybrid combination of bayesian probability and frequentist probability."

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