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Wouldn't a match with an open-source engine be unfair? The competing close-source engine could embed the opponents source inside it to predict the exact moves t
by hrjet 13y ago
Wouldn't a match with an open-source engine be unfair? The competing close-source engine could embed the opponents source inside it to predict the exact moves that the opponent would make, thus gaining a speed advantage.
Even more interestingly, what would a match between two open-source engines look like, if they both embedded each other?
- cscheid 13y agoEliezer Yudkowsky gave a talk at MIT recently that touched on this very subject: http://lesswrong.com/lw/itp/meetup_talk_by_eliezer_yudkowsky_recursion_in/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/itp/meetup_talk_by_eliezer_yudkowsky... Some commentary by Scott Aaronson: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1558#comment-89317 http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1558#comment-89317
- nl 13y agoThere's a fair bit of data (opening books) and configuration that can differ between two otherwise equivalent engines.