idea: as long as throwing more neurons at a problem to solve it is cheap, a mind is disincentivized from figuring out higher-level structure
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a smaller brain will need more insight to solve the same problem, a larger brain may "understand" less
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a similar idea is in complexity theory (runtime of an algorithm vs its description size), but doesn't deal in incentives
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how do you figure out, at a glance, whether to optimize or to bruteforce - is there an optimal way to do this?
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nah, still too obvious a question, probably answered in some paper about impl-ing Prolog;
meta: quicker to figure out or to find the paper?
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had similar thoughts when alpha go won. I think practically brute force & understanding are not distinct activities.
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why abolish a useful distinction though? knowledge about the structure of a problem can drastically narrow the search space