Loved this game and so did my son. The ability to design custom units was awesome and didn't get to explore that enough. Wonder if you can a copy that would run on a modern desktop.

It is a direct decendent of the same techniques used to help you type by predicting the next word on smartphones and chat programs.

People found they could improve those models using trained artificial neural networks to learn prediction patterns. These evolved into very large models that have to train for very long times on humongous amounts of data on a very large number of computers.

Papers on these have been criticized for showing little architectural innovation or cognitive insight., just scaling things up massively.

But the results certainly produce many hitherto obtainable aspects of human intelligent discourse, even it is impossible yet to tell if any cognitive model building is going on in that artificial neural network.

That's not what I see there. It leads with the statement that numerical simulation is invalid after a few 10s of millions of years.

It then points out that n-body problems can only be handled that way.

It goes on with investigations of known resonances and puts limits on their behavior.

I don't see 100 percent anywhere.

And our math is not powerful enough to prove stability in the same sense rhat we use for human designed systems.

Intuitively very little. And we can simulate that for a bit.

But theoretically we have a problem. Our math and physics can't even prove the configuration we have is stable even though the evidence very strongly indicates that it is - seeing that we can tell that there have probably been no major changes in things for billions of years despite constant perturbation coming from comets and other things probing the system.

So the answer is probably not but we can't be sure, theory doesn't help much and simulation suffers from exponential growth of measurement error in the initial state.

Yeah, it really doesn't seem like a particularly efficient country anymore. Trains are definitely not reliable anymore for example. Bureaucracy is stifling. Anything goes wrong gets blamed on COVID.

Probably the biggest reason we don't do that at the moment is the fear that it could eliminate native life forms that we could learn a lot from. Probably overblown as the native forms are likely to be better adapted. But certainly possible.