After AI beat them, professional Go players got better and more creative
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I think the impact of AI on Go has been much greater than its impact on Chess or Starcraft
I think the impact of AI on Chess has been more like a strong human player (certain openings become more favorable, others less)
I don't detect a great increase in the creativity of chess players
To the contrary, modern players tend to insist on playing in an engine-approved "correct" manner which often doesn't take much risk, unlike the great mid-20th-century players like Fischer and Tal who always pushed for win and were willing to accept very unbalanced positions
In Starcraft the impact has been even less, with few players imitating AI and most (myself included) attributing the AI's success more to speed and precision than to a strategy that others might copy
hell yeah
I've never shot an AK before
Trickle-down economics is a term of abuse
Nobody (or almost nobody) promotes anything they call trickle-down
What it actually refers to is the idea that tax cuts might spur growth, which they can do. The term is most associated with Reagan's tax cuts, but JFK before and Obama afterwards had similar tax cuts. In Reagan's case tax revenues increased after the tax cut - because they worked and did actually spur growth. I'm not familiar with the others but I believe they also worked.
What actually impoverishes people are excessive taxes, grants of monopoly privilege, regulations and (in the absence of regulation) failure to enforce common law.
clown emoji me all you want, star trek is commie AF
commie media implying race is only skin deep and therefore US is deeply evil for not achieving racial equality
I agree aluminum & mercury are neurotoxins.
My understanding is that adjuvants are needed to produce an "immune" (allergic) response from an inert "pathogen".
I admit I haven't researched the topic of adjuvants extensively, but it makes sense to me that a truly inert bit of organic matter probably would not produce an immune reaction.
The distinction to the claim you made is that I am skeptical that modern vaccines can have any immune effect without these adjuvants (even if manufacturers were willing to spend more producing each dose). Moreover, we should consider whether the immune effect is net beneficial even if it can be induced.
twitter.com blocks this as of a couple days ago:
https://nationalvanguard.org/2016/03/the-murder-of-andrei-yushchinsky/
I don't like slavery, but I like food and dislike beatings
Dawkins is (and always was) a post-theist Christian
https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2007/09/how-dawkins-got-pwned-part-1/
Many Christians see the modern decline and the semi-retraction of 'New Atheists' like Dawkins and want a more hardcore version of modern schismatic Christianity. As the preceding link makes clear, that would be a mistake. Dawkins represents exactly that form of Christianity, and adding cosmology will not vitiate his ethics.
Instead, Christian should re-embrace Scholasticism, making reason based on experience respectable within the Church
Dawkins himself should embrace the naturalistic ethics he highlights in his book The Selfish Gene, but rejects in favor of "rising above" our nature (to embrace a toxic form of ultra-altruistic Christianity)
Good book, not ancap but gives a good critoque of ZA with many classically liberal outlooks (limited state etc.)
Just finished reading it, absolute banger. https://nostrcheck.me/media/d6149823c90c4865e4bc434a4be1a1ee8f72aabd8328dd059ba4f11f7633b0b6/148c9127ba11cb37dd1fa7d741d203ea901dcd58a9d9050a10231c4c5c3f4062.webp
Darn. Maybe someday.
I don't have a problem with image macros (memes) but I think cliches have been reclassified into memes and cultural references, which I think diminishes creativity (by removing the negative connotation of writing heavily cliched material)
cliches are unoriginal and flat even if you call them memes
Are the private security firms willing to tell the state police to bugger off when it comes to taxes?
That's the biggest distinction between bodyguards in a state system and anarchocapitalism
One small step for Zimbabwe, one giant leap for mankind