Edited by author 05-02-2001 03:11 AM
I thought this was a very intriguing paper. The idea that they show is fairly simple but slightly counterintuitive. Throughout my reading of the paper, I wanted to contradict what they were presenting. However, the paper provides such a simplistic model that it is difficult not too agree with the authors. The result is a good one and one that I think has shown its face in other facets of AI, which is more reasoning capabilities (which could also appear as heuristics) is not always better.

One area where I felt the paper could have expanded a bit more was section 4. The paper did such a nice job of simplifying the model in section 3 so that one could reason about it without too much difficulty. But, when the paper continues on in section 4 to relax the conditions of the game and show a more general idea, I found myself less convinced. The paper seems to quickly gloss over many of the relaxations and calls them “harmless assumptions.” Although I still tend to agree with their findings, I think the argument could have been made more concrete with more detailed arguments in section 4.

Dave