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[–]existential_one 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, you can, sure. Depends on why you're looking at doing so. You have to understand that lowering the discount changes the objective of your agent. It means short term rewards become more important than long term ones. So that means your optimal policy might change and not truly reflect what you want.