Author: Joe McCarron
Date: 18:34:09 04/20/98
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On April 20, 1998 at 02:29:05, Christophe Theron wrote: >On April 20, 1998 at 01:43:08, Georg Langrath wrote: > >>It was really answers on my message about my wondering why there are so >>few women interested in computerchess. However I really will emphasize >>that I never think it depends on that men are more clever. I myself feel >>kind of stupid when I measure how many seconds it takes for my different >>chessprograms to solve a mate for example. For this and similar problems >>I can spend hours and hours. And honestly I seldom play real chess on >>all my chesscomputers nowadays. When I do this my wife often read books >>how to take care of children, religious problems, political books and >>fictions etc. She keeps company with our children while I am doing >>meaningless experiments with my chessprograms. I am not very proud of my >>priority. I sooner feel that it is kind of stupidness in the >>y-chromosom. But I have very fun with all my chesscomputers. Thank you >>Ed. > >I suppose it's the secret of the success of humans. > >One half (approx.) does useful and sensible things. So there can always >be another generation. So people don't kill each other too much. > >The other half does stupid things (I mean really stupid sometimes), but >in the end it turns out to be useful too (a kind of miracle). > >Each half does not really understand what the other half does. So it >shouldn't work at all. > >But each has something special built in the BIOS. A kind of sympathy for >the other half. > >And this is enough to make everything work fine (well, nearly). > > > Christophe George that was a funny post :)and Christopher along your lines its womens fault men do stupid things! In evolution they sexually selectedthe men that would rather tinker around with chess programs than do things with a more immediate impact on there lives and society. On the otherhand men shoudl take credit for sexually selecting the females with the common sense. (George and his wife are a perfect example of how this perpetuates itself.)
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