Author: Roger
Date: 17:14:02 03/12/00
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On March 12, 2000 at 19:38:08, Jay Rinde wrote: >Of course the only way a human can beat a computer is by cheating. And since all >chess players are cheaters they must cheat. If they cheat they must lie. I hope >you guys aren't chess players because that would mean you lie, which means what >you say isn't true. Just dumb. But then..... ----------------------------------- I think this is very well put. The only way a human being can beat a computer is by cheating. Kasparov proved that in his attempts to misinterpret the Deep Blue logs, a kind of cheating after the fact. I say that Xie should lose this match, just to show that human beings are creatures capable of real integrity, who can resist the impulse to make false claims that only serve to exaggerate their abilities and rightful claim to fame. Obviously, computer processes are inherently deterministic, and therefore reproducible, and if Xie chooses her opening carefully, she will be able to bring strong constraints to Deep Junior's opening variety, and thus conceivably create games with her one gigahertz monster, that can be reproduced in toto under tournament conditions. I say she must lose, therefore, if only to show us that she is truly playing fair. I am praying for her, and for the future of human integrity in chess. Let us hope she is generous enough in her appreciation of our uncertain epistemological situation (we can never really KNOW if the games are fair or not) to actually throw the games and lose, if only because she should have pity on those of us who naturally tend to develop paranoid fantasies. That is why I say that if she wins, we will truly know the selfish character of this woman. Roger
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