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#-1 - AGI (with David Deutsch)

Reason Is Fun

CHAPTER

The Importance of Random Variations in Human Thinking

Human minds produce conjectures much more efficiently than any either systematic search or random search. And we don't know why? We don't know how. So, for example, chess playing engines have to have to search through billions of times more possibilities than chess grandmasters do. No, it's impossible that that well unless there's something in the hardware of the human brain that we don’t know about.

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