The speaker describes experimentation as spanning from non-linguistic trial and error to simulation-led design and systematic testing.

“Like trying things can be anything from...”

“trial and error without even understanding the scientific method without understanding writing without understanding any maybe without even having language and having to be the chimpanzees who are watching the other chimpanzees use the stick to get ants and then in some kind of non-linguistic way this spreads versus like the people at the top aerospace companies who are running a lot of simulations to find the exact right design and then like once they have that they test it according to a very”

“very well-designed testing process.”