Mistakes were made

I'm playing this solitaire game and solving games. Watching the mistakes that are made to solve a game makes me think of Hawking and his ideas about the imperfection of the universe. You can watch it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DECAorZYErk

Watching mistakes result in favorable outcomes makes me wonder if a mistake-prone player could beat the winning rate of the "perfect" player. Could a formulation of mistake frequency do such a thing? It's worth investigating.

Another interesting aspect of this solver is watching how any given mistake really doesn't cause any changes until consequences present themselves. You can ignore moving a black queen any number of times but it really doesn't do anything until the other black queen shows up on the Talon and you play it. Life is a lot like this. We keep making the same mistakes over and over until real consequences present themselves. The river denial runs deep.

I find the game solving option extremely useful. I can play a hand and then solve it afterwards. If I lost and it yields a result of solutions or no solutions, I feel vindicated. I don't even look at the solutions, I'm just checking my play. If I won and it yields solutions, I can rest assured I made some fortunate mistakes.

There is something obscene about playing only winning hands. One game after another where the cards come up golden. I can't spot any trend on the deals and they all play like regular hands until good card keep coming up at opportune times. It's pure cheating the odds with technology and I can't help but think this might be a metaphor for our modern existence. It seems real but it truly is unreal. It's unsettling.

My son had me read some of David Lynch's book about fishing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catching_the_Big_Fish

It's a great book. He talks about how ideas can branch out into all sorts of directions. I'm not sure where this is leading. One thing is for certain, I'm clicked out and I still prefer to play a game of solitaire with a real deck of cards.