Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 11:42:46 11/20/00
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On November 20, 2000 at 09:10:38, Mogens Larsen wrote: >Since you're not playing yourself, but merely operating a program, the reason >for moral outrage is limited IMHO. My ability to understand your concern would >increase significantly if you were playing on your own. After all, I imagine >that your account doesn't noplay computer programs. > >Maybe you're just being a poor loser. Take it less seriously and it'll pass. What you say may be correct, I don't know. But I think that it is OK to be bothered if someone cheats against a computer. Once I noticed that in my computer's history there was an adjudicated game, from earlier that day. I looked into it, and the adjudication result was wrong. My program was winning the game, and it was adjudicated a draw or an abort, I can't remember. I talked to an admin who regularly adudicates games, and he told me that hist tendency is to favor the humans in adjudications, since the human cares and the computer doesn't. I don't think this kind of thing is fair. What's fair for a human is fair for a computer, and what is cheating against a human is cheating against a computer. I don't claim that the human cheated in these games, I don't know. bruce
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