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The Policy

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A plan under uncertainty is a policy — a decision prepared for every situation — solved backward: decisions take the best branch, chance takes the weighted average.

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The striped game tree returns with one stripe recolored: where MIN chose the worst for you, chance now averages.

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The answer to a sequential problem is never one move; it is a decision for every branch.