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No Agent Examines Everything

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Interesting problems branch enough that no computer can examine every possible plan, so acting intelligently means choosing what not to examine.

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A modest 3 choices, 16 steps deep: forty-three million plans — from arithmetic anyone can check.

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The wall is mathematical, not technological; faster machines move it barely at all.