Author: Dan Homan
Date: 02:40:39 08/04/98
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On August 02, 1998 at 21:31:09, Don Dailey wrote: >I don't get any of this, and don't understand it. It reminds me >of the incident where someone used the Lang program at a computer >chess tournament, but with their own housing. Or the guy at >the US OPEN (maybe it was the world open, I wasn't there) who >used a computer to play his games, and transmitted moves to a >friend somewhere in the hotel, who then relayed the computers >move back to him. He was wearning a radio with headphones >the whole time. Or the time that lady jumped into the >Boston marathon near the finish line to win it all! Rosie >Ruiz I think her name was. Does anyone remember that? >What the hell is wrong with people? > >- Don I think it has to do with 2 kinds of success or achievement. 1) Public success that is recognized and rewarded by society. 2) Private success that gives you a feeling of satisfaction in "a job well done". Most people have private successes in their lives that they can and should be proud of. Most of these will not also be public successes. I am not at all surprised that certain people want public success so badly that they will cheat to get it. What surprises me is that they seem to get some private satisfaction out of it. Some people actually seem to get boosted self-esteem by cheating with a chess program to inflate their ratings on a server.... I find this astonishing. It is almost as if they are defined entirely by their public image.... - Dan
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