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The Design Space

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Agent designs differ along ten dimensions — observability, effect uncertainty, other agents, learning, planning depth, and more — and every system occupies one cell of that space.

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Chess sits in the easy corner: fully observable, deterministic, one opponent, no fog. Your kitchen occupies the hard one.

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Brilliance in one cell transfers poorly — three cells away, the same system can be helpless.