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  • I don’t even think I really disagree with the core of your point here, but I think you’re incorrect in conflating irrationality, emotion, and non-determinism. If you want to take apart a brain and show me the warm soft non-determinism please do. But I think the reality of everything we know about the world suggests the human mind is an incredibly complex deterministic machine, orders of magnitude beyond the abilities of the machines we create.
















  • This is the first I’ve ever heard of it being an acronym, and it seems unlikely to me. The origin was around tournaments where there was a degree of changing one’s own choices based on the likely match-ups you would face. E.g. for something like magic, if everyone is on a slower control deck, you can take advantage of metagame knowledge and run a aggro deck even if the cards are not quite as powerful in that card pool.