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smokeltoday at 8:17 AM1 replyview on HN

> Frivolous use of the term World Model

The term "world model" as it was once used in model-based RL can now apparently refer to anything as silly as linear regression. Then again, the RL folks probably borrowed the term from behavioral scientists before them. It's probably best to simply accept this :/

A similar thing happened to "object oriented" which has been misused by philosophers and visual artists alike.


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mdp2021today at 8:27 AM

> probably borrowed the term from behavioral scientists

It's from epistemology. It is not there to refer to the subjective but to the objective.

> A similar thing happened to "object oriented" which has been misused by philosophers and visual artists alike

For instance?

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