People who have only encountered optimization as a qualitative idea and not in a technical context seem to assume “global” can mean “unbounded/infinite domain”.
No you can’t even define optimization problems in such cases without tricks like exponential decay discounting
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I understand that. I was unclear on what particular finite game you were looking to measure “optimized” against, since you didn’t seem entirely clear on that yourself. :)
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