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by prometheus76 1239 days ago
Chess is a perfect information game. Both opponents can see the entire board at all times. Reality, nor even driving, is not anywhere close to that. Weather, time of day, climate, seasonality, and other drivers throw constant and voluminous amounts of unpredictability into the mix.
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> Reality, nor even driving, is not anywhere close to that.

This reminds me of the kinds of intuitions people had about Chess and Go. In retrospect they seem silly, but it made plenty of sense to them at the time. The fact was that there was a solution that machines could use that humans couldn't use. Naturally, a solution that humans couldn't use was hard for them to anticipate being effective.