Thoughts
“They Asked the Machine That’s Killing the World About Chess, and It Said Black Has a Forced Win in 10,084,718,004,934,623”
It’s important to understand that computers’ alienness comes from inside the heads of their human creators.
Computers are a perfectly logical mirror. We look into them and see a horribly disfigured and ugly monster but what the computer shows us is a version of what lives inside of us.
Humans invented the game and humans built the computer and humans asked the question. The answer may look alien but is it not very human?
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