Good_Burning_Plastic comments on Innate Mathematical Ability - Less Wrong

40 Post author: JonahSinick 18 February 2015 11:11AM

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Comment author: Bayeslisk 02 March 2015 07:37:23AM 1 point [-]

Oh, good. I got this too. With XOR. Contrary to other repliers, it seems to me like XOR is a simpler primitive than "the presence/absence of shapes forms a rectangle". It's more easily generalizable and doesn't rely on the existence of other patterns. As a cute curiosity, by the way, the XOR-ing works both vertically and horizontally.

Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 06 March 2015 10:22:19PM 1 point [-]

I did it with horizontal XOR, and I didn't notice the vertical XOR or the rectangles (which, if you think about it, are a consequence of the two XORs) until I read the comments.