> We've gone through this with chess Please never compare perfect information games (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_information https://en.wikipedia.org

> We've gone through this with chess Please never compare perfect information games (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_information https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_information) with actual reality, which is probably many orders of magnitude more complex. Kind of similar story with math (pure) and other sciences (impure): https://xkcd.com/435/ https://xkcd.com/435/ OpenAI & co keep presenting their achievements at maths competitions as their path to AGI/ASI/singularity. But if you look at that XKCD graph, the way the joke reads is in terms of arrogance (scientists working on purer fields are more arrogant), but the actual science complexity work the exactly the other way around. Impure sciences are orders of magnitude more complex. Implementing a sorting function = coding (relatively pure). Creating an entire commercial software product/service with high performance and other professional-level characteristics = software engineering (wildly impure; after 60+ years we can't even agree on the best programming language to use).