Principlev1PR-508
Make small, affordable tests of schema components where…
Make small, affordable tests of schema components where failure produces information rather than catastrophe, treating each test as an option to continue, revise, or abandon.
Why This Is a Principle
Derives from Humans discount future rewards hyperbolically rather… (humans discount future hyperbolically), Every moment spent exploring is a moment not spent… (explore-exploit tradeoff), and Human beings make decisions under conditions of incomplete… (decisions under incomplete information and constraints). The principle applies real options theory and little bets strategy to schema validation, prescribing small experiments that preserve future options while producing information. This manages the explore-exploit tradeoff in epistemic contexts.