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Command+F "chess" Sweeping that one under the rug, are we?
by mullingitover 3y ago
Command+F "chess"
Sweeping that one under the rug, are we?
- bbor 3y agolol in this thread full of dozens of paragraph-long attacks on this book, yours is by far the most damning. And funny. For those that are unaware like me: Hofstadter's law is a self-referential adage, coined by Douglas Hofstadter in his book GEB…: Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law. **History** In 1979, Hofstadter introduced the law in connection with a discussion of chess-playing computers, which at the time were continually being beaten by top-level human players, despite outpacing humans in depth of analysis. Hofstadter wrote: In the early days of computer chess, people used to estimate that it would be ten years until a computer (or program) was world champion. But after ten years had passed, it seemed that the day a computer would become world champion was still more than ten years away... This is just one more piece of evidence for the rather recursive Hofstadter's Law.
- johnmw 3y agoDoug seems pretty shocked by the pace of AI development in this video [1]. Still, Hofstadter's law has held true for me more often than it has not! [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac-b6dRMSwY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac-b6dRMSwY