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Subject: Re: The Fredkin Prize

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 14:02:39 04/26/05

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On April 26, 2005 at 16:58:31, George Sobala wrote:

>On April 26, 2005 at 16:35:03, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>
>>Absolutely amazing logic.  I hope you get better advise for investing for your
>>retirement,  15+ million dollars over 10 years to get a return of $100,000 is
>>_not_ very smart investing...  IMHO anyway...
>
>Mind you, IBM stock price *tripled* over the 48 months after the 2nd match.
>Difficult to quantify how much of this was an effect of the win v Kasparov, but
>the match result certainly didn't do any harm! That's worth a few billion
>dollars...


Never said it didn't.  I said "the Fredkin prize was not the motivating factor
for the match" contrary to the point being argued by CY.



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