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Comment by troupo

6 hours ago

human brains are insanely powerful pattern matching and shortcut-taking machines. There's very little brute forcing going on.

Your second sentence contradicts your first.

  • Pray tell how it contradicts the first.

    Just note: human pattern matching is not Haskell/Erlang/ML pattern matching. It doesn't go [1] through all possible matches of every possible combination of all available criteria

    [1] If it does, it's the most powerful computing device imaginable.