Author: Pallav Nawani
Date: 11:15:30 10/12/04
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On October 12, 2004 at 13:59:16, Álvaro Begué wrote: > >>Agreed. But the hoax is when programmers think they are important in chess. How >>could that be if they cant even play chess themselves? Well, most of them. > >And how does it matter if a programmer can play chess or not? In order to make a >difference in the world of speed records a race car designer doesn't have to be >a good runner. I think the simile makes sense. At some point humans won't be >able to compete against machines at all, just like runner can't catch up with >cars. But both runners and race car designers are in the speed business. But this is entirely besides the point. The question is, whether a race car designer has a right to humiliate an athlete, just because his cars can go faster? Obviously not. Can a race car designed run faster than an athlete? Obviously not. In that case, *he* has no right to mock an athlete, after all, race cars will beat their designers too, and the athlete will beat the designer too, so its really the designer who is a patzer here. Pallav
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