High-dimensional reasoning dynamics behave like a Plinko game of saddles
wgilpin0 · x · 2026-09-09
The author likens high-dimensional reasoning dynamics to a Plinko game: trajectories start nearby and converge to the same answer, but saddles scatter them along many different routes past different incorrect solutions.
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