Author: Duncan Stanley
Date: 14:17:03 04/22/01
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On April 22, 2001 at 17:01:34, Ralf Elvsén wrote: >On April 22, 2001 at 15:50:06, Albert Silver wrote: > >>When Shredder won its title, it wasn't even Shredder 4 at the time. Now >>it is on version 5 and by the next event should already be Shredder 6 with >>tweaks taking it along its way to version 7. That's too long. I am absolutely >>not trying to discredit Stefan's victory, but am trying to emphasize the problem here. > >I don't know the wording of ICCA regarding the meaning of the title but >I personally have no problem with the fact >that a program evolves. My "personal perception" of the title is that >it belongs to the programmer, not a particular version of a program. >I think Stefan could show up with Bongo 1.0 , his new AI-based >program, if he chose to do so. Computer Chess is so utterly confused as to whether it is the programmer or the machine or the hardware or the software or the operator or the book or a giant symbiosis of the whole caboodle that the 'title' is interchangeable between all the separate elements. The 'title' has a kind of wave-particle dualism. Nobody knows where or what it really is. When it is a wave, of course, it extends over all space in a probability function, hence other programs can 'acquire' it temporarily via the SSDF list. So nobody knows who has it, really. Ossi thought he'ld turned it into a particle but, when he looked inside the box - woof !!! it was a wave again !!! > >More frequent WC-events would be nice though... God help us .... > >Ralf > >> Albert
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