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Playing Go with Darwin
- Kelamir 6y agoFascinating article. Thanks for sharing. Reminded me of Go, now waiting for an opponent to play with.
- coldtea 6y ago>After the program AlphaGo annihilated Lee Sedol, one of Go’s best players, Sedol retired, saying his opponent was “an entity that cannot be defeated.” Well, given that chess, go, and so on, can be both brute forced (with available resources), and solved fast with heuristics, they are not the best games to play against computers if you want to win...
- jimmyvalmer 6y agoLike most articles that align Go strategy with real-life phenomena, this mangles the essence of game concepts like sente, gote, aji, seki, etc. People who write these articles either do not play the game or overstate the case for ... what exactly? Foisting a false narrative by appealing to Go's mystique? These writers are better off comparing their subjects to Monopoly or Chutes n' Ladders.