[backpropaganda]

My point is that the two problems are quite distinct. This is not a small change to how the problem is being solved, but a complete change of the problem itself. Further the change significantly limits the feasibility of the solution, which is not sufficiently made clear by the authors of the blog post. Casual followers of AI/RL research might think that this is a significant progress, while in fact it's actually a progress on a problem that hasn't really received any attention due its uselessness. I think there may be 1-2 papers which might have experiments on this problem while probably 100s in the model-free problem.

Thanks for your analogy though. I agree that it's better than mine. I was only trying to give a rough idea, but I'll use your analogy if I have to now. :)