Wow, I just watched this video where Feynman makes an incredible analogy between the rules of chess and the rules of our physical world.
You watch the pieces move and try to figure out the underlying rules. Maybe you come up with a rule about bishops needing to stay on the same color, and that rule lasts a while. But then you realize that there is a deeper rule that explains the rule you’ve held to be true: bishops can only move diagonally.
I’m butchering the analogy though and am going to stop talking now. Just go watch the video. It’s poetic.
Finding some some friend (or language model?) to play Zendo (the science game) with makes this really intuitive on a gut level. Guessing a rule based on whether a sequence of 3 integers is either accepted or rejected works pretty well via text.
Wow, I just watched this video where Feynman makes an incredible analogy between the rules of chess and the rules of our physical world.
You watch the pieces move and try to figure out the underlying rules. Maybe you come up with a rule about bishops needing to stay on the same color, and that rule lasts a while. But then you realize that there is a deeper rule that explains the rule you’ve held to be true: bishops can only move diagonally.
I’m butchering the analogy though and am going to stop talking now. Just go watch the video. It’s poetic.
Finding some some friend (or language model?) to play Zendo (the science game) with makes this really intuitive on a gut level. Guessing a rule based on whether a sequence of 3 integers is either accepted or rejected works pretty well via text.