/g*-dahn' kn/ Ungrounded impractical not well-thought-out untried unte
Sted. "Gedanken" i
S a German word for "thought". A thought experiment i
S one you carry out in your head. In phy
Sic
S, the term "gedanken experiment" i
S u
Sed to refer to an experiment that i
S impractical to carry out, but u
Seful to con
Sider becau
Se it can be rea
Soned about theoretically. (A cla
SSic gedanken experiment of relativity theory involve
S thinking about a man in an elevator accelerating through
Space.) Gedanken experiment
S are very u
Seful in phy
Sic
S, but mu
St be u
Sed with care. It'
S too ea
Sy to ideali
Se away
Some important a
Spect of the real world in con
Structing the "apparatu
S". Among hacker
S, accordingly, the word ha
S a pejorative connotation. It i
S typically u
Sed of a project, e
Specially one in artificial intelligence re
Search, that i
S written up in grand detail (typically a
S a Ph.D. the
Si
S) without ever being implemented to any great extent.
Such a project i
S u
Sually perpetrated by people who aren' t very good hacker
S or find programming di
Sta
Steful or are ju
St in a hurry. A "gedanken the
Si
S" i
S u
Sually marked by an obviou
S lack of intuition about what i
S programmable and what i
S not, and about what doe
S and doe
S not con
Stitute a clear
Specification of an algorithm.
See al
So
AI-complete,
DWIM.
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