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Satisficing

Satisficing is a decision-making strategy that involves choosing an option that is "good enough" rather than trying to find the optimal solution. This concept was first introduced by Herbert Simon, a Nobel laureate in economics, who argued that humans do not always act rationally, but rather tend to simplify complex decisions by settling for a satisfactory choice. Satisficing is often used in situations where the cost of searching for the optimal solution is too high, or when the difference between the optimal and satisfactory solutions is negligible. It is related to the concept of Underfitting, where a model or solution is simplified to the point of being less accurate, but still useful. Satisficing is also relevant to Decision theory, Game theory, and Artificial intelligence, where it is used to model human decision-making and develop more efficient algorithms, such as Dijkstra's algorithm.

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