Just Maximizing My Utility Function

Eat the dot, avoid that spot
No ghost can catch me.
Just you wait while I evaluate
My shallow-branching tree
I’ve got to keep on moving
Cause living isn’t free…!

Cause I’m just…
Maximizing my utility, I’m
Maximizing my utility!
Making sure that MEU is best for M-E me!
Why don’t you come along
And join in this joyous song
Cause if you try you can’t go wrong
Maximizing utility!

Go ahead and make your move
I already know what’s best
And if you move suboptimally
I’ll adapt to play the rest
And beat you by a greater score
When you put me to the test.

Cause I’m just…
Maximizing my utility, I’m
Maximizing my utility!
Making sure that MEU is best for M-E me!
Why don’t you come along
And join in this joyous song
Cause if you try you can’t go wrong
Maximizing utility!

Oh, sure, your gathered information might be out of date.
And you can’t be sure your reinforcement’s converged to the right weights.
Might be a problem, I admit, if you’ve got the wrong set of features

And what if you have to estimate your known transitions and current state…!

We’ll go on
Maximizing our utility, just
Maximizing our utility!
Picking choices with a maximum sum of value times probability!
Why don’t you come along
And join in our joyous song
Cause if you try you can’t go wrong
Maximizing
I’m maximizing
Maximizing utility!

Part of NaNoWriMo Penance. Title donated by Marvin T.

Inspired by CS188.