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Elon solves chess (media.piefed.world)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) by negativenull@piefed.world to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
 

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Elon: The actual number of moves that are not utterly stupid in chess is tiny and chess will be fully solved one day

Chess.com: Skill issue

Elon: Chess is hard for humans, but not for computers. One day, it will be fully solved like checkers. Between now and then, or even after, have fun. People enjoy may games/sports where machines are vastly better.

Chess.com: There are more possible chess games, by about 40 order of magnitude, than atoms in the observable universe. To solve chess, you'd have to map them all. Good luck.

Elon: Wrong, all legal chess positions are ~40 ooms less than the estimated atoms in the Universe. And ASI will figure out ways to solve and compress that are far beyond what we could possibly comprehend. (Here I am arguing with some random intern at a chess website)

Chess.com: I'm a full-time employee

Elon: (something-emoji)

Chess.com: Even my friends don't text me back that fast

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[–] MasutaHarada@thelemmy.club 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't know much about chess and how it works in professional stage, but even i know whatever that musk spout from his mouth are complete arrogance and bs

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

he think hes smart if he plays chess.

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[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 61 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Elon Musk is the personification of a moron’s hallucination of a genius.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 points 18 hours ago

thats the ketamine, cocaine and dom perrignon talking.

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[–] socsa@piefed.social 141 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I have been a full ass adult the entire time twitter has existed and I still don't fucking understand how the thread structure works.

[–] Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works 5 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

I agree, and don't get me started on the clusterfuck that is Discord. How the fuck do you navigate that abomination of a GUI?

Want to add a friend? No fucking idea where the button is.

Want to call a friend? No fucking idea how.

And God forbid that you want go create a group call.

[–] veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 56 points 1 day ago

Oh good I thought I was the only one having an aneurysm reading from top to bottom

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[–] Godort@lemmy.ca 315 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So I guess Elon tried to get into chess because it's a smart people hobby, got demolished, and now is having a sour grapes moment.

[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 92 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Probably also paid others to play for him like with his stupid video games, he's fucking pathetic.

I would be curious what his highest chess.com raing is. I got to 1650 once, a middling score, more often in the 1500s but don't play much now.

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[–] LordPassionFruit@lemmy.ca 349 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

"Even my friends don't text me back that fast" is a wonderful insult.

[–] disorderly@lemmy.world 136 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Our lad just starched the richest man in the world in his own office.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Ok;

This is the observable universe.

Not the entire universe, which we have no idea how large it is.

So the observable universe has 10^80 atoms or so. The number of possible moves in all possible chess games is supposed to be around 10^120. That number is called the “Shannon Number.”

According to this site.

[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 13 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

yeah but how many of those moves are not stupid as hell, like my moves

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

Whether a move is stupid or not is Irrelevant.

You do need to remove the impossible positions, like pawns on rank 1

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[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 152 points 1 day ago (8 children)

I don't know what he has against chess, but this is like the 3rd time I've seen him try to convince everyone that it's pointless because of computers.

[–] negativenull@piefed.world 178 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Another classic example that proves this:

[–] lonefighter@sh.itjust.works 178 points 1 day ago (3 children)

What I take from this is "I can't cheat, so I won't play"

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 119 points 1 day ago

"I keep losing because this game is TOO SPUPID"

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[–] Amberskin@europe.pub 4 points 18 hours ago

Sounds like Radovid in The Witcher 3. You know, the mad, genocidal king.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Lol it means he has the same problem with it that I did: there's absolutely no random element to blame so when you lose you just fucking lose and that's all there is to it. The other person's brain just stepped on your brain and wiped it off on the curb.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 0 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Generally random factors allow players with less skill to win. I think about that with games a lot.

It's one of the (many) reasons I don't really like DND very much. Huge random factor. You can make excellent tactical decisions and lose. You can be an absolute baffoon and triumph.

Some randomness is okay but not like that.

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[–] StellarExtract@lemmy.zip 61 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's written like a deliberate parody of people like him, it's so ludicrous.

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[–] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 day ago

...Bro wants chess to be Age of Empires? wtf kind of response is this?

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My theory is that he's frustrated that he can't manage a team or pay someone to get better at it for him.

The humility it takes to be a beginner at something is uncomfortable when you have a huge ego.

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[–] socsa@piefed.social 25 points 1 day ago

Wow the most cringe comment possible. Amazing. He keeps doing it.

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[–] DandomRude@lemmy.world 73 points 1 day ago (14 children)

I'm pretty sure it's because he can't stand losing. The man clearly suffers from a narcissistic personality disorder.

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[–] zitrone@europe.pub 80 points 1 day ago (8 children)

wtf is the order one is supposed to read this in?

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] markz@suppo.fi 46 points 1 day ago

Month-day-year social media format

[–] ZMoney@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Something I'll never understand about twitter. Maybe it was more readable before the nazi took it over?

[–] ratel@mander.xyz 39 points 1 day ago

It was always that unintuitive.

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[–] huppakee@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The person who put three screenshot together would have gained so much respect to me if they just took 5 extra seconds to paste it in reading order.

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[–] Sabin10@lemmy.world 47 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Elon Musk doesn't understand complex systems? Colour me I already knew that.

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[–] BurgerBaron@quokk.au 92 points 1 day ago

The guy who pays people to play video games for him so he can fail at pretending he played himself in a "Hello, fellow kids" moment is pretending to be smart again? Wild.

[–] Buage_@piefed.social 63 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Even my friends don't text me back so fast

Lmaooooo love that reply 🤣

[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 32 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Elon wants to become a computer so badly, but not even he will put a neuralink chip in his head.

That speaks magnitudes about that tech tbh.

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