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> they found 64 nodes that seemed to represent the 8x8 Othello board Is this that surprising? The only tokens they had ever feed into it were "E3, C3, D4..." S
by SamBam 4y ago
> they found 64 nodes that seemed to represent the 8x8 Othello board
Is this that surprising? The only tokens they had ever feed into it were "E3, C3, D4..." So they fed 64 distinct tokens into it.
These nodes correspond to those individual tokens. It seems like our human interpretation to say that it represent the "8x8 Othello board."
- regularfry 4y agoThe way Othello works, playing a legal game requires understanding how the symbols map to the geometry of the board, at least as far as knowing that there are two orthogonal axes on which the tokens are ordered. Playing an "E3" might change the colour of nodes on any neighbouring extent of the 3 rank or the E file. If it's playing a legal game, it's difficult to see an alternative explanation that doesn't map to "it's got an internal representation consistent with an 8x8 Othello board", especially if you directly reach in and make changes to that representation and it subsequently makes moves consistent with those changes.
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