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Alison Gopnik on Child Development, Elderhood, Caregiving, and A.I.

COMPLEXITY

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Is There a Better Solution?

The trouble is that if you just do something like what's called hill climbing, you're likely to get stuck in a local optimum. So it could be that there's a really good solution, but it's much more different from where you currently are. And the way that that typically gets resolved in various kinds of forms is start out with these big broad search through lots and lots of possibilities. Then slowly cool off the narrow down. The metaphor that's often used is this metaphor about temperature.

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