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  Think of the mental cost of constantly processing every outcome in search 
  of maximum benefit and minimum cost.
That's an interesting observation... It would be extremely exciting if we could somehow process real-world information and create programs that calculated and displayed this kind of information to us. Humans seem to be lousy at this, and hence there is great potential for making machines that allow us to make more efficient decisions.

It is the same idea as applying fuzzy/probabilistic logic and rules of interference to the real world; the main technological difficulty isn't the logic per se, but translating information about the real world to a format we can apply the rules of logic to. I wonder what scientific insights we need to make before it becomes possible to do these things...it's got to be possible, right?




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