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Subject: Re: What about evaluation, Ed?

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 04:57:00 01/05/03

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On January 05, 2003 at 07:46:50, Uri Blass wrote:

>On January 05, 2003 at 07:39:05, Sune Fischer wrote:
>
>>On January 05, 2003 at 07:00:41, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Nonsense.
>>>
>>>There is no contradiction between trying your own ideas and understanding ideas
>>>of other people.
>>>
>>>Reading ideas of other people can give you new ideas to try
>>
>>If a field is very advanced it becomes harder and harder to make contributions.
>>Why do you think people go to school for 9 years, then another 7 years to get an
>>education? And inspite of all your knowledge, how much did you contribute to
>>math or chemistry sciences?
>>
>>Getting new and good ideas is not easy when they have all been "taken".
>
>Your feeling that they have all taken is wrong.

Bad choice of words then, you know what I mean.

>By your logic scientists should not publish articles because they prevent other
>to publish articles.

Yes, I cannot publish the theory of relativity because Einstein beat me to it.

But that is okay, because in science the goal is to progress, in games the goal
is to beat your opponent, for that you need an advantage that he doesn't have.

>>Not to mention that just getting to the high level is very time consuming.
>>
>>-S.
>
>I think that after reading Ed's page it is relatively less time consuming
>so this is a good reason to be happy about Ed's page.

It is less time consuming for everybody, which means Movei will not progress in
relative strength, only in absolute strength.

-S.
>Uri



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