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		brokensegue on Feb 9, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PhD Knowledge Not Required: A Reasoning Challenge ... Are these really reasoning challenges? Seems like they are really solved via brute force or guess and check

enum on Feb 10, 2025 [–]

Heuristic search, not exhaustive search, is an essential ingredient of reasoning. Has been true since chess. Remains true with MCTS, LLMs, etc.

brokensegue on Feb 11, 2025 | [–]

What heuristics are there for some of these?

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