• 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.

          • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            he was deranged and not thinking clearly long before he started on amphetamines although they didn't help

              • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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                2 years ago

                really it was the background of extreme antisemitism, cultural impact of the eugenics movement and obsession with Prussian militarism if I had to pick three factors

                • please_just_stop [comrade/them]
                  hexagon
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                  2 years ago

                  The Prussian military industrial complex was wild. Wehraboos fetishise it. Australians fetishise Rommel far too much. More on this another time.

                  • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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                    2 years ago

                    I don't think there really were military industrial complexes before ww1 and ww2. Wars back then were considered ruinously expensive and resented by the bourgeoise for their disruption in commodity production. The workers weren't big fans either given all the dying involved but no one cared what they thought

                    The British built Rommel up after the war because that makes having beat him seem more impressive. A good general is a general that wins Rommel lost