On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 10:37:43AM +1000, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > But Deep Blue wouldn't try to poison Kasparov in order to win the > game. This isn't because it isn't intelligent enough to figure out
Yes, it is precisely because the system is not intelligent enough. > that disabling your opponent would be helpful, it's because the > problem it is applying its intelligence to is winning according to the > formal rules of chess. Winning at any cost might look like the same > problem to us vague humans, but it isn't. It doesn't matter how you win the game, but that you win the game. Anyone who doesn't understand that is not vague, he's dead, long-term. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=4007604&user_secret=7d7fb4d8
