Has anyone thought about these concepts before?
Definitions
I tried reading about it but got a little confused as to what the author was getting at (in various secondhand accounts) but I guess a distinction I landed on was that there are some specific finite tasks that are done once or a handful of times (like cleaning something today), versus recurring “infinite” tasks that will be done over and over (say, that same cleaning task is done daily or weekly, or that cleaning task was a one-off task while there are cleaning tasks you might do daily or weekly)
Preventing “Failure” With Infinite Tasks
I’ve found this to be somewhat helpful to remember as you can feel like a “failure” unwittingly attempting “infinite” tasks, where there is no one final state of “winning” (when we think back to the analogy of an “infinite game”). Or, you need to break those up in to “finite” games - say if you are doing some kind of chess puzzles, you can really do them over and over again indefinitely with new puzzles, but maybe a “finite” framing of those might be to do 10 or 100 puzzles.
Thoughts on Finite and Infinite “Games” or Tasks?
It would have taken me less time to solve a Rubik’s Cube than to read your post, and I’m not even a cubing expert.
that sounds kind of cryptic but if you want to solve rubik’s, here’s a guide: https://www.rubiks.com/solution-guides
I read on the infinite / finite game and the author takes their definition in a totally different direction, defining life as the only “infinite game” I think… which I guess is true but I’d break it up more or at least tried to for my purposes of definition
Cool, and thank you for the link 👍