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Ep. 27 - Problem Formulation

Awakening from the Meaning Crisis

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How to Play Chess Heuristically

A heuristic is a problem solving method that is not guaranteed to find a solution. It is only reliable for increasing your chances of achieving your goal. So I've just shown you, you cannot play chess algorithmically. Of course you can and even the best computer programs do this, play chess heuristically. You can't be comprehensively algorithmic, logical, mathematical. The price you pay for avoiding combinatorial explosion is you fall prey to bias again and again and again. This is why the two are often paired together heuristic bias approach. Now there's going to be deep reasons later while this is insufficient.

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