• usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    the thing about computers beating humans at chess is that chess is an extremely easy game to program a computer to play it's culturally prestigious as a symbol of inteligence but it's difficult in ways that noticing things and plotting out potential outcomes are the hard parts and those are far easier for a computer

    it's like being alarmed that a computer is capable of adding and storing large numbers better than a person

    • please_just_stop [comrade/them]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      I still felt bad for that Korean Go player who was made to smoke by the computer touchers at Oxford. I felt bad when I was a kid and my dad beat me at chess.

      Pretty sure I could beat him as black now, but I don't enjoy chess. Maybe couldn't beat him in a fair fight because he's bigger than me and works out. He owns a Luger I should inherit.

      • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I don't actually know how to play go but I suspect it's similar computationally but with more potential states of the board chess is limited by the fact that it can only go to 200 rounds. It ultimately doesn't matter that much that computers are more suited than humans for board games because the point of games is to have fun and these are machines designed specifically to be good at the game. A motorbike could beat a human in a race but that doesn't invalidate athletes who train to win footraces

        If it helps anything that Korean Go player called it the best game of his life and seemed to have had fun

        • please_just_stop [comrade/them]
          hexagon
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          2 years ago

          Fighting STEMlords and other bad people is always fun. Try to choose a game you can win. E.g. protracted people's war. I fucking wish I was bi. Not even joking. When I used meth I only wanted to fuck women and fight people. Vile drug but at least it killed Hitler.

          • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            Pretty sure Hitler shot himself. Either way he killed himself to avoid capture by the red army so the Soviet Union killed Hitler.

            Winning a game can be fun but it's also only fun if there was a possibility of not winning.