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Elon solves chess (media.piefed.world)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) by negativenull@piefed.world to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
 

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Transcript:
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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[–] ashenone@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 day ago

He's got a text file on his computer called Elon's Chess Moves

[–] TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

I'd love to see his attempt to 'solve' Go like this

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But not screenshot resolution.

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[–] derpgon@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

So nobody is gonna call out how fucking hard is this to read.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

That's like 2/3 of the comments from instances I'm federated with lol

[–] Magnum@infosec.pub 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What? Checkers is "solved" ?

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Yeah, every possible combination of checkers moves has been simulated and analyzed. We know everything there is to know about playing checkers, there's no new strategies to discover. We can write an algorithm that will ALWAYS choose the best possible move.

You may have independently done that with Tic Tac Toe.

It's not possible to do with chess. The number of possible combinations of moves is astronomical; if we used up every atom in the observable universe we couldn't write them all down, so there might be revolutionary new strategies that remain undiscovered, and that will never not be the case.

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

It's so stupid that I wouod make myself stupid by treating it as a serious discussion

[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 6 points 1 day ago

If you live in the US, too late on that one. The quality of public discussions has been precipitously declining, and it wasn't very intelligent before.

[–] 13igTyme@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

Elon used the old "reword your insult to use back at you."

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