From: Robin Lee Powell (rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org)
Date: Tue Mar 15 2005 - 12:29:25 MST
That's nice. Can he argue ethics with you as well?
-Robin
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 12:07:04AM -0800, Lee Corbin wrote:
> Spike is entirely correct.
>
> This five year old
>
> http://www.msoworld.com/mindzine/news/orient/go/special/nkotb/nkotb3sub.html
>
> could give me nine stones and win almost every time
> (I am only 3rd que or so, and have "only" spent about
> a thousand hours playing Go).
>
> Lee
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-sl4@sl4.org [mailto:owner-sl4@sl4.org]On Behalf Of Robin Lee
> > Powell
> > Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 10:18 PM
> > To: sl4@sl4.org
> > Subject: Re: Overconfidence and meta-rationality
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 08:53:56PM -0800, spike wrote:
> > > Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
> > > > ...quite absurd to suppose that a lone five-year-old could face
> > > > down full adult intelligences and win...
> > >
> > > Chess players get this if they start very young and have talent.
> > > If a sharp 8 year old can spank all the adults he knows,
> >
> > Erm.
> >
> > 5 year old != 8 year old, in several profound and important ways.
> >
> > -Robin
> >
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