Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:34:11 09/21/05
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On September 21, 2005 at 04:59:40, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On September 20, 2005 at 22:24:42, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>>They have not played *since* then. They haven't played for 8 years. >>> >>>bruce >> >>I know. And were I betting, I would bet they never play again. They have the >>"world opinion" already. Nobody in their right mind would do anything to hurt >>that... > >The rest was interesting, but I would like to respond to this. > >*You* would have played again. You would not have retired just because you got >one optimal result and People Magazine or the equivalent thought you'd solved >chess. Not in a million years. You'd have written a letter to People Magazine >explaining that you hadn't solved chess. > >bruce Maybe. Unless I had a job I liked, and the higher-ups said "no more information about the program should be released, we are shutting the thing down to maximize the great result we just produced." Given the choice of (a) keep job or (b) lose job, suddenly it becomes a different decision-making process, when you have a family that stands to lose if you make the wrong decision. That tends to change everything...
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