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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
Makes me remember the news a decade ago that went like “Elon Musk the genius billionaire who reads rocket science books to take us all to Mars”. Yeah he probably did read them, without really understanding details, so that he could throw around technical words to impress people. It worked for a short while but he wasn’t clever enough to keep his stupid ideas to him so he exposed himself basically.
did you actually ever watch a single interview with the person that you’re talking about or are you just regurgitating what others have said? serious question
Just to double check, we are talking about Elon right? Lol. I also have to note, you downvote a comment for which you don’t know if that person has any sources for what they said or not? Is that really a “serious question” or are you just coming to the dicussion with very strong and unfounded priors, the thing you are accusing me of.
I have watched multiple interviews featuring him. But more importantly I have seen dozens of comments made by him on various technical/societial topics that completely missed the mark (even though he was 100% confident). I am sure I can still find atleast three or four if you have somehow missed all of Elon’s tweets for the last decade and are interested. By the tone of your message I feel like you have opinions or contradicting resources on the matter, care to share?