Number of legal 18x18 Go positions computed. One more to go

Re:Number of legal 18x18 Go positions computed. One more to go by NhanH on Sunday March 08, 2015 @10:06PM (#9168545)

I read "false complexity" as "complexity as imposed by a set of rules", as opposes to "complexity as an emergent behavior from very simple rules and interaction". Of course, adding any rule will add more complexity of the former, and probably the latter too. Whether one is more interesting than another is a matter of taste.

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Re:Number of legal 18x18 Go positions computed. One more to go by hasenj on Sunday March 08, 2015 @10:14PM (#9168580)

Also: arbitrary rules.

Concrete example: castling[0] in chess

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castling

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Re:Number of legal 18x18 Go positions computed. One more to go by Padding on Monday March 09, 2015 @03:07AM (#9169617)

Reading that article, isn't that what Rich Hickey would call "incidental" (and thus bad) complexity?

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