[otoburb]

>>This article seems alarmingly misinformed.

I hate appeals to authority as much as anybody else on HN, but I'm not sure that we could say Rich Sutton[1] is "misinformed". He's an established expert in the field, and if we discount his academic credentials then at least consider he's understandably biased towards this line of thinking as one of the early pioneers of reinforcement learning techniques[2] and currently a research scientist at DeepMind leading their office in Alberta, Canada.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_S._Sutton

[2] http://incompleteideas.net/papers/sutton-88-with-erratum.pdf

[JoeAltmaier]

He's writing that article for a reason, to be sure. Its just not the one that the article says its about, I'm thinking.