Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 12:52:51 10/14/02
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On October 14, 2002 at 07:43:32, Harald Faber wrote: >Hsu... well... he wouldn't be a friend of mine. Everything he says seems to be >doubtful. DB Jr. 10-0 vs. other commercials where NOONE ever has seen the games >except... guess who... yes, Hsu. Now denying the loss in 1995, of course it was >"just a prototype absolutely not comparable with real DB". Nonsense. And >honestly speaking, I do not believe 50% of what he says or writes. It is all >about things noone else has ever seen, proven or whatever. So basically you think Hsu is a liar, and it wouldn't matter one way or the other if he produced games played between Deep Blue and commercial programs at this point. You'd probably just say he made them up. In other words, Hsu can't do anything right in your mind. I'm not sure what you expect out of the man. Let's say he played 10 games against commercial engines over a few days just to see how it was coming along, and Deep Blue won 10-0. Hsu thought, "Wow this is great!", and went home for the day. Later on, someone asks if he's ever played Deep Blue against commercial engines, and he says that he did, and Deep Blue won 10-0. Of course, it was a year ago, and he didn't happen to save the games, becuase he was just testing Deep Blue's progress for his own personal curiosity. And since he didn't save the games, even though he wasn't doing this for anyone but himself, you deem him a liar. I fail to see the logic here. You talk about him having no proof, yet you have no proof of him being a liar, none. This reminds me of other times when people like to pick and choose their standards to suit their personal opinion. An astronomer says, "Intelligent life exists somewhere else in the universe, without a doubt." When asked why, the astronomer replies, "Because the universe is so vast that the odds are such that it's almost an impossibility that intelligent life doesn't exist on other planets." Ask the same scientist if he believes in evolution, and he'll give you a confident yes, even though the odds against everything going exactly right without an error for billions and billions of years means that "it's almost an impossibility". Russell
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