A decent intuition might be to think about what exploration looks like in human children. Children under the age of 5 but old enough to move about on their own—so toddlers, not babies or “big kids”—face a lot of dangers in the modern world if they are allowed to run their natural exploration algorithm. Heck, I’m not even sure this is a modern problem, because in addition to toddlers not understanding and needing to be protected from exploring electrical sockets and moving vehicles they also have to be protected from more traditional dangers that they would definitely otherwise check out like dangerous plants and animals. Of course, since toddlers grow up into powerful adult humans, this is a kind of evidence that they are powerful enough explorers (even with protections) to become powerful enough to function in society.
Obviously there are a lot of caveats to taking this idea too seriously since I’ve ignored issues related to human development, but I think it points in the right direction of something everyday that reflects this result.
A decent intuition might be to think about what exploration looks like in human children. Children under the age of 5 but old enough to move about on their own—so toddlers, not babies or “big kids”—face a lot of dangers in the modern world if they are allowed to run their natural exploration algorithm. Heck, I’m not even sure this is a modern problem, because in addition to toddlers not understanding and needing to be protected from exploring electrical sockets and moving vehicles they also have to be protected from more traditional dangers that they would definitely otherwise check out like dangerous plants and animals. Of course, since toddlers grow up into powerful adult humans, this is a kind of evidence that they are powerful enough explorers (even with protections) to become powerful enough to function in society.
Obviously there are a lot of caveats to taking this idea too seriously since I’ve ignored issues related to human development, but I think it points in the right direction of something everyday that reflects this result.
The last paragraph of the conclusion (maybe you read it?) is relevant to this.