Author: James Robertson
Date: 12:29:33 01/06/00
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On January 06, 2000 at 10:20:15, Graham Laight wrote: >On January 06, 2000 at 10:12:53, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>I don't dismiss it out of hand. But if I have a question about the >>effectiveness of brain surgery, I ask the _surgeon_ and not the _patient_. >>They have two entirely different perspectives. The patient recovers fully. >>He considers this procedure a revolution. The doctor knows that only one of >>20 will recover. He considers it terribly risky. Who is right? >> >>Chess program 'users' have one perspective from playing the programs. The >>authors have a completely different one, knowing all the things that are >>missing, all the things the program does poorly, all the things it gets >>into trouble with... >> >>Which perspective seems most accurate? The user of a black box, or the person >>that 'filled' the black box? > >Or the impartial evaluator of the black box? Is he really impartial? He never was good enough to become GM and now he cackles that something (he thinks) can beat the players he never could. Just a theory. :)) But no, we can't say for sure he is impartial. James
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