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The Chess-World Fallacy

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Treating fully observable, game-like worlds as the normal case is a fallacy — almost every environment worth acting in hides most of its state most of the time.

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Markets, roads, hospitals, conversations: fog everywhere, and the field's early optimism was partly methods honed in miniatures meeting it.

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Ask early, of any demonstration: could the system see everything?