• DasRav [any, any]@hexbear.net
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    A smart person: “I know that one day, the machines we have that cannot solve certain problems, which has been proven mathematically, will magically learn how to solve these problems anyway and thus make everything that is impossible, possible.”

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    My work homie and I have a long running bit where we both pretend we’re good at chess and can play in our head so we’ll just say random chess pieces names and random letter and number combos and say stuff like ‘oh yes, the Varny-Salzberg flank. Very clever’ I genuinely dont even know specifically which pieces move what way. We’re just both the kind of people that others assume are good at it cause we’re nerds

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      Or don’t actually. Kind of counting on him finishing this bedridden vegetable speedrun since America seems incapable of producing more that one or two Luigi’s

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    I’m a chess fan and melons arrogance over the game pisses me off to no end. It’s so deeply incurious about the beauty and creativity. It’s just the epitome of tech bro capitalism, why would I waste my time learning and growing at a thing a computer can do?

    He’s made wild claims about how good he could be if he just tried and I’d love to see him try to back that up.

    I’m just so angry at him dismissing the beautiful games of like Fischer or Tal or Kasparov. These are like legitimate pieces of art. And I hate him for it.

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    solved

    What a wretched perspective to be cursed with. Sure, and maybe one day human life itself will be fully solved and everyone will just be born directly into The Infant Smelter

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      Elon is a goon but that’s just the term that is used when every possible game state is mapped out. Tic-tac-toe is an example that is pretty trivially solved to the point where you can always win or tie.

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        Expanding on this, “solved” specifically refers to a game where the optimal strategy always results in winning or a draw, regardless of what the opponent does, becoming deterministic. It comes from mathematics, where problems are solved, and game theory (the branch of mathematics concerning solutions/proofs dependent on user choices).

        Checkers, tic-tac-toe, Mancala, Connect Four, Rubik’s cubes, and Othello have all been solved. Go, chess, and Klondike solitaire remain unsolved, despite deterministic board states. It is likely go will never be solved. Solving chess runs into problems with processing and memory, since there’s so many possible games. We literally can’t mark all of them down if the entire universe inscribed a different game on every atom in existence. With solitaire, we don’t even know the probability of winning any given game (much to the frustration of mathematicians).

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          The question if and how chess can practically be solved is in itself pretty interesting. But just the claim that it’s boring because it’s going to be solved is so intellectually incurious.

          That’s also a large part of why I’m so annoyed with vibe coding. It takes all the intellectual curiosity out of the field. Only the solutions matter. And it doesn’t even whether they are correct but that nobody finds something wrong about them within whatever time/effort humans are willing to spend to try to validate the solutions.

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    If you told Kafka about Elon’s terminally online life of paying to be constantly owned over and over, he would kill himself on the spot.

    PS: One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a corncob.

  • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today
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    Coming from the dude who thought polytopia was the end all be all of strategy. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a fun game. But a grand strategy it is not.