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May 28, 2021

New essay: Offload Mental Simulation

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I've just posted a new essay 🎉 so here's the link and the first two paragraphs:

Offload Mental Simulation

In this write-up I want to talk about an idea that I believe is an absolutely essential feature, the bare minimum, for any future programming system. In fact this feature must be built into the design from the start.

The short version of this idea is "offload mental simulation onto the computer". This is not a novel idea, it's been said many times before but is also one of my favorite topics and bears repeating. The long version is below.

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