Best of 2017

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2017. 326 posts.

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Agents that imagine and plan

Imagining the consequences of your actions before you take them is a powerful tool of human cognition. When placing a glass on the edge of a table, for example, we will likely pause to consider how stable it is and whether it might fall. On the basis of that imagined consequence we might readjust the glass to prevent…