monktastic1

il y a 5 moisdiscuss

Yes, this is a huge omission, because it means that as engines improve, the stated advantage becomes increasingly meaningless to humans (which is the opposite of what we may intuitively expect).

What I really want to know as a player is how easy it will be for me to win from this position against someone of my opponent's strength, which is admittedly a very hard thing to define, let alone compute.

monktastic1

il y a 6 moisdiscuss

I think you're misreading the comment you're responding to. Its parent comment said that life can be a blessing or a curse depending on how you choose to look. They responded by asking whether the word "curse" is appropriate if it can be changed based only on perspective.

monktastic1

il y a 6 moisdiscuss

Indelible, probably -- though I admit that both trying to eat and trying to delete that passage failed. (I jest -- "impossible to forget," of course.)

monktastic1

il y a 10 moisdiscuss

Your account seems relatively new, so you might be unfamiliar with the rule to be charitable here. If you'd like to be snarky and lower the bar for discourse, Reddit is a much better place to do that (though ideally it would be kept out of public spaces altogether).

monktastic1

il y a 10 moisdiscuss

Huh, I would guess there's a different mechanism at work. In my experience, movies playing on TV during the holidays tend not to get people's deep, persistent, undivided attention.

monktastic1

il y a 5 ansdiscuss

Note that the author indeed asks:

"But the most effective prompt? In terms of producing a realistic but dramatically lit landscape with recognizable mountains and hills and (okay not sheep)?"

monktastic1

il y a 8 ansdiscuss

I'm reminded of the coastline paradox.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_paradox

"The coastline paradox is the counterintuitive observation that the coastline of a landmass does not have a well-defined length. This results from the fractal-like properties of coastlines."

monktastic1

il y a 9 ansdiscuss

I should clarify that I don't really have a horse in the race; I was just providing an example of why "giving money away" might be in quotes.

For example, consider the following scenarios:

  - I pay for my college.
  - I pay for my son's college.
  - I pay for my niece's college.
  - I pay for a stranger's college.
  - I pay the university directly so that more strangers can attend.

Most people would be comfortable calling the first "investing" in yourself, and would think it ludicrous to call it "giving money away." Probably still mostly true for the second (though some would have switched camps). What about the fourth?

It doesn't seem like there's a hard line anywhere. Probably just two ways of looking at the same thing, which for me anyway has an effect on how I use my money (I don't want to "give it away" but am happy to "spend it" on making others' lives better).

monktastic1

il y a 9 ansdiscuss

See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_investing

monktastic1

il y a 9 ansdiscuss

The joy of having made the world a little better can be seen as a "return." It's the idea behind impact investing, for example.

monktastic1

il y a 9 ansdiscuss

Because it may be more precise to label it "philanthropic investment."

monktastic1

il y a 9 ansdiscuss

Right, the point is that his manager consistently beat the market (even if by a small amount). Not that I knew this before just now.

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