JulianMorrison comments on What is control theory, and why do you need to know about it? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JulianMorrison 28 April 2009 09:46:41PM -1 points [-]

Those ones are happenstance. They just feed back, they're not going anywhere.

The analogy I mean is that like a LUT, the answer to any particular question is embodied in the pre-existing structure. And this correlation of response to result is optimized, it's not luck.