Author: blass uri
Date: 16:42:44 10/12/99
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On October 12, 1999 at 19:10:00, Dann Corbit wrote: >On October 12, 1999 at 18:51:25, Amir Ban wrote: >[snip] >>I think it's pretty low to say or imply that Ed played DBjr for cheap publicity. >>Obviously he did that out of curiosity. It would make better business sense to >>concentrate on the WCCC rather than play improvised games in the hall, but >>people who are curious do what is intersting, not important. It's clear from Hsu >>& Campbell's letter and the clarification from Friedel that they are not curious >>in the least, and that they don't give a damn about their peers respect. That's >>a good enough reason not to respect them, and I don't. >Wow! I am very surprised to hear such a strong statement from you. How do you >imagine that they do not wish for respect? Because they do not want to persue >the matter? It is not clear if that is out of kindness or lack of energy, but >it seems a bit much to imagine that they are not interested in public opinion. Their behavior proves that they are not interested in public opinion. If they want to get respect and Deep blue Junior is really better than the commercials then they can get the respect by playing against commercial programs many games and proving a clear superiority. The fact that they do not do it is a proof that they are not interested in public opinion. >Imagine if I made some chess game called "Bean Counter" and played against >Junior 100 times, winning all 100. Well, it turns out that I ran Junior with 1K >of cache and even the program had to swap to disk because the memory of the >machine was so small. Imagine further that Junior was on a 486 and my program >was on a AMD K-7. This case is different because IBM provided the bad conditions for deep blue Junior. Uri
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