Comment by Windchaser

>> Your designing one thing.

You might well be making 100 AI babies, and seeing which one turns out to be the genius.

We shouldn’t assume that the best way to do research is just through careful, linear planning and design. Sometimes you need to run a hundred experiments before figuring out which one will work. Smart and well-designed experiments, yes, but brute force + decent theory can often solve problems faster than just good theory alone.