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Date: 05 Dec 2006 22:15:00
From: Wilma
Subject: Remarkable humans.
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Poor Kramnic. He received a mere $500,000 for his time and trouble.
Well, we've reached the point where we must brag on any human who has the
remarkable ability to hold his own against a computer. Just to draw the
damn things speaks well of our extraordinary brains. How on earth can a man
do that? What a marvelous creature we are. Soon, the most frequent result
will be more like Michael Adams' than like Mramnik's. And I see young
Radjabov lost to his computer opponent. We're losing any sense of
humiliation at losing to them. Headlines will extol our greatness when we
manage to draw a game against a computer.
Wilma
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Date: 05 Dec 2006 14:27:02
From: Mark Houlsby
Subject: Re: Remarkable humans.
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Hi Wilma
Wilma wrote:
> Poor Kramnic. He received a mere $500,000 for his time and trouble.
>
I believe it was 500,000 *euros* which, I think, is about US$625,000.
> Well, we've reached the point where we must brag on any human who has the
> remarkable ability to hold his own against a computer. Just to draw the
> damn things speaks well of our extraordinary brains. How on earth can a man
> do that? What a marvelous creature we are. Soon, the most frequent result
> will be more like Michael Adams' than like Mramnik's. And I see young
> Radjabov lost to his computer opponent. We're losing any sense of
> humiliation at losing to them. Headlines will extol our greatness when we
> manage to draw a game against a computer.
>
> Wilma
I am at a loss to understand the sense in which players like Kramnik,
Adams and Radjabov are *not* remarkable.
Do we argue that Olympic sprinters are puny, just because we have jet
aircraft?
Mark
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Date: 06 Dec 2006 00:25:53
From: Wilma
Subject: Re: Remarkable humans.
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Yes, someday a man beating a computer at chess will be comparable to a
man outrunning a motorcycle.
Wilma
"Mark Houlsby" <mark.houlsby@eudoramail.com > wrote in
news:1165357622.452947.299150@80g2000cwy.googlegroups.com:
> Hi Wilma
>
>
> Wilma wrote:
>
>> Poor Kramnic. He received a mere $500,000 for his time and trouble.
>>
>
> I believe it was 500,000 *euros* which, I think, is about US$625,000.
>
>> Well, we've reached the point where we must brag on any human who has
>> the remarkable ability to hold his own against a computer. Just to
>> draw the damn things speaks well of our extraordinary brains. How on
>> earth can a man do that? What a marvelous creature we are. Soon, the
>> most frequent result will be more like Michael Adams' than like
>> Mramnik's. And I see young Radjabov lost to his computer opponent.
>> We're losing any sense of humiliation at losing to them. Headlines
>> will extol our greatness when we manage to draw a game against a
>> computer.
>>
>> Wilma
>
> I am at a loss to understand the sense in which players like Kramnik,
> Adams and Radjabov are *not* remarkable.
>
> Do we argue that Olympic sprinters are puny, just because we have jet
> aircraft?
>
> Mark
>
>
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Date: 06 Dec 2006 09:52:28
From: David Richerby
Subject: Re: Remarkable humans.
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Wilma <wilma_defemina@hotmail.com > wrote:
> Yes, someday a man beating a computer at chess will be comparable to
> a man outrunning a motorcycle.
You mean it will happen in every single Hollywood action movie? Cool!
Dave.
--
David Richerby Poetic Confusing Tool (TM): it's like
www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~davidr/ a handy household tool but you can't
understand it and it's in verse!
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Date: 06 Dec 2006 14:06:24
From: Thomas T. Veldhouse
Subject: Re: Remarkable humans.
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David Richerby <davidr@chiark.greenend.org.uk > wrote:
> Wilma <wilma_defemina@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Yes, someday a man beating a computer at chess will be comparable to
>> a man outrunning a motorcycle.
>
> You mean it will happen in every single Hollywood action movie? Cool!
>
And even then he will beat the computer by using a bat and not his brain.
--
Thomas T. Veldhouse
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