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> purely by brute force the new underlying model of the world. First it was: Who needs to understand an algorithm when you can just simulate everything? Now it
by noduerme 3y ago
> purely by brute force
the new underlying model of the world. First it was: Who needs to understand an algorithm when you can just simulate everything? Now it's: Who needs to simulate everything when you can just let a large enough black box approximate a solution?
- teekert 3y agoIt’s only a black box because our brains aren’t good enough.
- detrites 3y agoBut if our brains came up with the black box, can that really be true?
- daveguy 3y agoYes. All that is required to make that true is that our brains come up with a model that we cannot comprehend or that reflects a reality that we do not understand. That has been true since cycles and epicycles were used to describe the motion of celestial bodies and probably long before that.
- throwawaymaths 3y ago> Who needs to simulate everything when you can just let a large enough black box approximate a solution You are kind of describing science here. Take chemistry, it's a series of black boxes: chemical reaction patterns, bohr model, vsepr, orbital shell theory, perturbation theory