The Game of Go has been explored for 2500 years and resulted in a body of theories that Go masters study in Go schools. Alpha Go discovered that human Go understanding was caught in a local optimum, and broke out of it. The game of modern physics started only 130 years ago...
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Replying to @Plinz @notcalledjack
Hmm... but Go has a fixed and small set of rules. Physics has been about discovering a seemingly open ended set of rules. That said, AlphaGo's approach might be good for some physics based engineering?
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Replying to @raudelmil @Plinz
Epistemologically speaking, we do not know whether the rules or physics are fixed or variable, small or large, or much else. We do know that we don’t know much, and that AI is good at demonstrating to us the limits of our thinking processes.
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You are in the same situation as everyone who watches a pattern generator of unknown nature. The apparent strong regularity and the causal levels we observe are just the most predictive models.
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