Re:Show HN: Test your shape rotation skills
by 2muchcoffeeman on Sunday February 20, 2022 @06:16PM
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I don’t think it’s a bug. I resorted to some guessing because I saw shapes that were similar but different only by length. But the view was obscured so I couldn’t count the blocks.
Re:Show HN: Test your shape rotation skills
by _3u10 on Sunday February 20, 2022 @07:37PM
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Using less strength in your solving algo is a peak shape rotator skill. It’s yet another kobyashi Maru incident.
Re:Show HN: Test your shape rotation skills
by emschlr on Monday February 21, 2022 @01:04AM
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IIRC Kobyashi maru incident involves a no-win situation where you change the rules of the game to create a winning situation. How are we looking at a Kobyashi maru incident here? Can you explain?
Re:Show HN: Test your shape rotation skills
by _3u10 on Monday February 21, 2022 @09:57AM
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Shape rotation is often used as a proxy for G.
The shapes generally progress in difficulty until they are deemed “impossible” for any human shape rotator to figure out.
If you reduce the problem to counting instead of shape rotation (3D matrix multiplication) many humans can “shape rotate” to impossibly high levels of IQ
After the first couple of wrong guesses (though I'm pretty sure one guess was correct - could be the bug https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30408567) I started to count segment lengths rather than relying on mental shape rotation.