From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Tue Mar 15 2005 - 01:07:04 MST
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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