I do want to evoke BFS/DFS/MCTS/A*/etc here, because I want to make the point that those search algorithms themselves do not look like (what I believe to be most peoples’ conception of) babble and prune, and I expect the human search algorithm to differ from babble and prune in many similar ways to those algorithms. (Which makes sense—the way people come up with things like A*, after all, is to think about how a human would solve the problem better and then write an algorithm which does something more like a human.)
OK, then I once again feel confused about what this post is arguing as I remember it. (Don’t feel the need to explain it as a reply to this comment, I guess I’ll just reread if it becomes relevant later.)
I do want to evoke BFS/DFS/MCTS/A*/etc here, because I want to make the point that those search algorithms themselves do not look like (what I believe to be most peoples’ conception of) babble and prune, and I expect the human search algorithm to differ from babble and prune in many similar ways to those algorithms. (Which makes sense—the way people come up with things like A*, after all, is to think about how a human would solve the problem better and then write an algorithm which does something more like a human.)
OK, then I once again feel confused about what this post is arguing as I remember it. (Don’t feel the need to explain it as a reply to this comment, I guess I’ll just reread if it becomes relevant later.)