any good graduate education in mathematics will teach you that for the purpose of understanding something confusing, it’s always best to start with the simplest non-trivial example.
While that comment is meant as a metaphor, I’d say it’s always best to start with a trivial example. Seriously, start with the number of dimensions d, and turn it all the way down to 0* and 1, solve those cases, and draw a line all the way to where you started, and check if it’s right.
Reflective Oracles (fallenstein2015reflective) are another case of this, but in a highly technical context that probably (according-to-me: unfortunately) didn’t have much effect on broader rationality-community-discourse.
While that comment is meant as a metaphor, I’d say it’s always best to start with a trivial example. Seriously, start with the number of dimensions d, and turn it all the way down to 0* and 1, solve those cases, and draw a line all the way to where you started, and check if it’s right.
I haven’t seen them mentioned in years.
*If zero is impossible, then do 1 and 2 instead.