Negascout

Negascout is like playing a guessing game where you can only ask for one answer at a time. Let’s say you have to decide whether to go straight or turn left, but you don’t know which one is better. So you ask someone, “Is going straight the best option?” They say, “I don’t know, but turning left is definitely worse.”

Now you know that turning left is not the best option, but you don’t have enough information to say whether going straight is better. So you try again: “Is going straight the best option if turning left is definitely worse?” They say, “I don’t know, but turning left is definitely not the best option.”

Now you know that neither turning left nor going straight is the best option, but you do know that going straight is at least as good as turning left, and it might be better. So you pick going straight because it’s the better choice.

This is how negascout works. It’s a way to make decisions based on partial information by eliminating some options and then asking more targeted questions to narrow down the remaining choices.