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Lumifer comments on LINK: Videogame with a very detailed simulated universe - Less Wrong Discussion

1 Post author: polymathwannabe 19 February 2016 03:04AM

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Comment author: Lumifer 22 February 2016 05:31:25PM 1 point [-]

since most combinations of laws, parameters and initial conditions yield uninteresting "pathological" states

Another issue is too simple optimums. Human players are great at minmaxing game rules (=physics) and if the optimal behaviour is simple, well, the game's not fun any more.