it is now clear that playing checkers requires no optimization power, since you can solve it as deterministically as water running downhill.
Surely not! Just because a problem has a known, deterministic solution, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t require optimisation to produce that solution.
It would be extremely odd epistemological terminology to classify problems as optimisation problems only if we do not already have access to their solutions.
Surely not! Just because a problem has a known, deterministic solution, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t require optimisation to produce that solution.
It would be extremely odd epistemological terminology to classify problems as optimisation problems only if we do not already have access to their solutions.