realitygrill comments on Rationality Lessons in the Game of Go - Less Wrong

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Comment author: realitygrill 25 August 2010 03:14:05AM 2 points [-]

This phenomenon is extremely frustrating to me, but I don't pretend to not take advantage of it.

Part of the reason to play shape is that it's generally recognized as efficient structure; another is that it closes down options - you prune the search tree towards well-understood structures and don't have to worry or expend as much mental energy reading.