Get Everything Done

I'm not sure if this is completely relevant, but this article, by trying to use AI to complete tasks usually done by humans in Minecraft, seems to have broken down tasks into components in an interesting way. It also argues that in a combination of "copying" (of what I see as skills) and explicit knowledge tends to yield better outcomes than either alone (my poor paraphrase). It also talked about reward functions, which I didn't quite understand. I wonder if there are lessons here for task/life management, where we're trying to solve "hierarchical tasks" in the real world? (Recognizing the limits of computer-human comparisons, as we've discussed before)

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.03482.pdf