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Subject: Re: Kasparov - Not the Ego but plain Lies about "Science"

Author: Sally Weltrop

Date: 10:22:01 02/16/03

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On February 16, 2003 at 06:48:54, Rolf Tueschen wrote:

>On February 16, 2003 at 03:27:07, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote:
>
>>Will,
>>
>>Good article.  If we were as talented as Mr. Kasparov we too would take monetary
>>gain for our talent. The only thing wrong with Garry is his enormous ego. Maybe
>>he will mellow with age.
>
>How can you say such a nonsense. There is no sane human being without a strong
>Ego. The problem with Kasparov is not his Ego but his habit to spread lies. The
>problem is neither his money greed, how could it be if it's the base of the
>American Way of Life? The real problem of Kasparov is his lying about "Science".
>The development of the Ego is never the character deficiency itself. Strong Ego
>does not mean big Liar. Perhaps we can better understand what 'Lying' means if
>we introduce the basic stupidity in general. Our human stupidity is infinite in
>its dimensions so to speak. So most lies are in truth ignorance. Stupidity marks
>the exact boundaries of our individual ignorance. Or the other way round. 'Lies'
>is always a term of higher levels of _less_ ignorance. NB also highly
>intelligent humans are infinitely ignorant, still less stupid than lazy pupils
>but perhaps bigger liars. Remember: 'lies' is only detectable with 'less'
>ignorance in respect to a specific realm. [To be able to understand why
>differently big ignorances still are all infinite in their dimensions, please
>consult the theories of Prof. Aleph in Higher Mathematics.]
>
>'nough said to explain why yours truly as a normal mortal is able to prove why
>the chess genius Kasparov is spreading lies about Science. Only on this
>microscopically small field I can take Kasparov to task.
>
>Kasparov wrote that IBM 1997 was no science because he had no records of the
>event. Here is the first stupidity. As I could prove the event wasn't scientific
>because the IBM team of Deep Blue 2 spoiled their own research because instead
>of measuring their machine they suddenly measured the human player's psyche
>after confusional attacks. But that was never intended to do and visible the
>team had a big hole at the place of the necessary psychologists. If disruptive
>factors dominate the event the intended research is garbage. But Kasparov is not
>correct if he says that there was no record. I agreed and wrote that the record
>was not authentic, at least technically not assured in real time [what Ken
>Thompson supervised was already a print], but the then authorized output was
>published even on the Internet. So it is a big lie if Kasparov still claims that
>there are no outputs only because he had not been personally addressed. It's the
>other way round. Because the scientists did not care about the question of
>documentation of the machine's processes [perhaps impossible through the
>parallelism of the hardware design itself!], therefore there was no Science in
>the event.
>
>Now after the actual show event Kasparov simply denied the advantages of Deep
>Blue 2 and thought that he could "handwave away" the 100x factor advantage by
>the argument that chess were an infinite process. Here I am also a bit less
>stupid than Kasparov thanks to my education in logic. Kasparov claim is futile
>because also a chess genius does NOT touch the sphere of the infinite when he
>makes his concrete calculations or decisions based on his experience. Experts
>here have shown that factor 100x is a real knockout, sure perhaps not decisive
>against the best humans, because still below the human stupidiness, but Kasparov
>claimed that DJ was stronger than DB2 and this is nonsense.
>
>
>"The main difference, however, was that thanks to the sponsors, organizers, and
>participants, we brought computer chess back to its scientific origins."
>[Kasparov in the mentioned article.]
>
>So what is Kasparov's biggest 'lie' in the actual article? From a perspective of
>real Science it's very simple.
>
>He himself took part in the actual show event. So _he_, with his almost 1
>million US $$ could not support science. What he could do was helping the
>program's side to perform as good as possible. There is no proof for such
>inflence but human experience tells us that a human being after such a high
>recompensation is usually no longer independant in a chess event. Why should the
>killer mode afterburner should be initialized?
>
>Ad what we see in Amir's reports here in CCC, there is the contrary of science!
>Where is the exact data for Bxh2? Was the output of the machine documented at
>all? Now it's already too late. Science is NOT when weeks later a tued machine
>could reproduce the Bxh2 sac with exactly 0.00 eval.
>
>It is beyond my science education why exactly Amir, who was in case of
>Kasparov's questioning DB2 output of great help, could dare to appear here with
>so little data and no answers on simple questions. Little data is better than
>zilch, that is correct, but i the memory of 1997 the actual secretiveness is bad
>and telling. Kasparov seems to be on the science train because this time he got
>DJ versions in advance and he saw no genial moves whatsoever. That is ok, but
>we, the spectators, saw real blunders from himself and outrageous nonsense moves
>from the machine, that remained unpunished by Kasparov. Questions must be
>allowed why Kasparoov played such a weak chess. We have two theories. a) fatigue
>and b) money greed. Both are human failures. But as we know Kasparov is still
>very sportive. So money greed for future events is the best solution. The same
>Kramnik, the same Huebner.
>
>Rolf Tueschen

well put Rolf



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