the thing about computers beating humans at chess is that chess is an extremely easy game to program a computer to play it's culturally prestigious as a symbol of inteligence but it's difficult in ways that noticing things and plotting out potential outcomes are the hard parts and those are far easier for a computer
it's like being alarmed that a computer is capable of adding and storing large numbers better than a person
I still felt bad for that Korean Go player who was made to smoke by the computer touchers at Oxford. I felt bad when I was a kid and my dad beat me at chess.
Pretty sure I could beat him as black now, but I don't enjoy chess. Maybe couldn't beat him in a fair fight because he's bigger than me and works out. He owns a Luger I should inherit.
I don't actually know how to play go but I suspect it's similar computationally but with more potential states of the board chess is limited by the fact that it can only go to 200 rounds. It ultimately doesn't matter that much that computers are more suited than humans for board games because the point of games is to have fun and these are machines designed specifically to be good at the game. A motorbike could beat a human in a race but that doesn't invalidate athletes who train to win footraces
If it helps anything that Korean Go player called it the best game of his life and seemed to have had fun
Fighting STEMlords and other bad people is always fun. Try to choose a game you can win. E.g. protracted people's war. I fucking wish I was bi. Not even joking. When I used meth I only wanted to fuck women and fight people. Vile drug but at least it killed Hitler.
Pretty sure Hitler shot himself. Either way he killed himself to avoid capture by the red army so the Soviet Union killed Hitler.
Winning a game can be fun but it's also only fun if there was a possibility of not winning.
he was deranged and not thinking clearly long before he started on amphetamines although they didn't help
really it was the background of extreme antisemitism, cultural impact of the eugenics movement and obsession with Prussian militarism if I had to pick three factors
The Prussian military industrial complex was wild. Wehraboos fetishise it. Australians fetishise Rommel far too much. More on this another time.
I don't think there really were military industrial complexes before ww1 and ww2. Wars back then were considered ruinously expensive and resented by the bourgeoise for their disruption in commodity production. The workers weren't big fans either given all the dying involved but no one cared what they thought
The British built Rommel up after the war because that makes having beat him seem more impressive. A good general is a general that wins Rommel lost
Shall I tell that to his grandson? Not me. A gay guy I used to know. Might be dead now. I last talked to him in 2015. He was abusing cocaine and antipsychotics. Liked guys to shit on his chest.
who Rommels grandson? I don't like Rommel because he fought for Nazi Germany I don't see why I would want to involve his family. If Rommels grandson is not a Nazi I think that bygones should be bygones
Bygones are bygones. He's a cool guy. I hope he didn't start using meth.
I think he should fight his dad lol. He was living at home when I last saw him.
Why? Because he was eating whole packs of antipsychotics and considering a bilateral cingulotomy and clearly had daddy issues. He was crashing cars and shit. Reminded me of me.
I didn't know what I know now back then.
I'm not sure fighting your dad is necessarily the best way to help your mental health but then I don't know either of your dads
It's not. What he should actually do is steal his dad's car or something. Maybe crash it or take a shit in it. Better than lobotomising yourself. Not joking.
well that does sound better than getting a lobotomy but neither sounds like a great plan
Liberal psychiatry's plan for Stefan was to destroy him. Fuck that. I hope he's alive and well. I hope he's still being cool.
yeah a lobotomy definitely doesn't sound like it's in his best interest
He would make the greatest antifascist since Thälmann. He'd scare the absolute fuck out of any Australian cop. Spiritually Aboriginal. Spiritually Tasmanian in fact.
Tasmanians who move to Melbourne tend to rule. The Bedroom Philosopher is one. I'll post some of his music later.
Wait, did ban it because he actually thinks it's an infohazard? Hilarious.
Oh. Maybe I was quoting Roko then. Could be quoting any of these guys really. They're all the same
I get the vibe from a lot of these "my tech startup/cult is gonna stop AM/Skynet/SHODAN" types is the same as Theresa May trying to ban "encryption". They know enough about the pop culture around computers to know these words but not enough to know what they mean.
Yes. The problem with Anglo countries is basically that they are liberal engineers lead by bourgeois lawyers. It's the difference between Peterson and Zizek.
Boris Johnson yelling herd immunity at journalists asking why he hadn't listened to government medical advisors calling for lockdowns was a level of Dunning-Kruger effect beyond any I'd seen before.
We elect literal morons and sex pests. Germany elects Merkel. India elects a fascist psychopath. He's got tomorrow coming. I'll ask my psychiatrist to analyse Modi and Abe. I know what she'll say. She's hot for her age btw. Losers hate her.
Not sure which comment this is a reply to but I bet it's a good one.
Oh hell yeah. One of my best.
She’s hot for her age btw. Losers hate her.
At the end of the day, Merkel-defenders all want the same thing
For real. The absolute state of Germany. "Step on me DDR mommy" -- German liberals
I'd literally let Ulrike Meinhof kill me lol. Fuck the West for locking her up. Impressive bodycount though. Probably fucked better than Merkel.
Massively overestimating both their own efficacy and their enemies' efficacy. Is this ur-fascism?
We should make the basilisk so that we can torture these nerds for eternity
My personal theory is that we're already in Hell and God doesn't give a fuck. My grandparents* were raging atheists lol. Oh and Catholic on mum's side.
It is a disgrace what Boomers collectively did to Australia and their children. But I still love my parents.
*Granddad anyway. He built ships during the war. He quit smoking even when dad's mum kept doing it. Apparently I once told him he was a smart guy but God was smarter lmao. Can't remember saying it because I was like 5.
Intelligence was the only thing I respected when I was young. Look where that got me. Kicked out of university and living in filth. Girls literally only like me because they hate their dads. At least the ones who approach me. Gay guys like me but I'm not into it. My sister is gay.
What could it mean? Should we crucify tech nerds? Should they go outside?
crucify them but, like, in a nonlethal way. outside, surrounded by flowers and birds and those big fat honey bees who wouldn't hurt you in a million years.
Release the bees upon anyone who wants to nuke the whales. I think I might study psychology in Japan and try to help the hikikomoris. Better than staying here and bombing my landlord's car.
Just need to find a girl with lots of tattoos to bring with me. But with her shit together. Someone Shinzo Abe would hate.
Actually nah that's obnoxious. Not doing that. I'm going to seem orderly and polite and not like an Australian. I like that Japan still has the death penalty. Scary country. Even scarier than Germany and France. Vienna is the scariest city on Earth but it's too small for anonymity.
Yud and Aella both need to log the fuck off forever. They are funny though. Imagine giving money to either of them
