Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:20:50 05/08/00
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On May 08, 2000 at 06:55:36, Hans Gerber wrote: >On May 07, 2000 at 22:08:07, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>The log files have been public for months. Just like Intel releases internal >>details of their microprocessors.... _AFTER_ they are released, and the window >>of opportunity for competition has closed. There is no scientific 'moral' that >>puts a time on when a detailed description of results was produced. They made >>good on their promise to release the logs. We have all seen them. > >Note please that I didn't speak of _moral_. My point is that a scientist should >be able to control his experimental setting. Did you hear anything about the >factor of "disturbing or upsetting" the human to win the match that was intended >to see what the computer could do? Where is this going? The DB team didn't do _one_ _single_ _thing_ to upset Kasparov. They offered him a huge amount of money to play. They agreed to his every demand before the match. They showed up ready to play. Kasparov worked himself into a lather after he didn't like what he was seeing in the first two games... nobody on the DB team had anything to do with that. It was totally beyond their control. Or should they have put a gun to his head, said "sit down, shut up, and play chess..."
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