map vs. territory – Uncommon Descent

How can computers win at chess without having even common sense?

AI succeeds where the skill required to win is massive calculation and the map IS the territory: Alone in the real world, it is helpless.

JVL Relatd: “always fuzzy”? That’s crap. And I think you know that. It's not 'crap'. It's the way the world is... – From IAI News: How infinity threatens...
relatd Ba77 at 12, Yes. The desired reality of atheistic naturalists is "If there is evidence that this universe is fine... – At Evolution News: The Multiverse: From...
JVL Origenes: you are not making any sense to me. To me it is as if you do not understand what... – From IAI News: How infinity threatens...
relatd JVL at 363, Pure, 100% unadulterated Baloney. "But it’s always fuzzy around the edges and so each person has to... – From IAI News: How infinity threatens...
relatd Free will is exercised by everybody every day, whether they know it or not. In ancient times, you had people... – From IAI News: How infinity threatens...
Origenes JVL you are not making any sense to me. To me it is as if you do not understand what... – From IAI News: How infinity threatens...
zweston I love how skeptics don't accept testimony but they are fine with testimony from corrupt scientists who falsify papers all... – At Evolution News: The Multiverse: From...
kairosfocus F/N: Case study no 1 on the self admitted worst of sinners, Saul of Tarsus. That is, we here see... – L&FP, 60: Illustrating an all too...
bornagain77 Fasteddious: ""I am not sure why you were responding to my note @5." The various Multiverse conjectures have been used... – At Evolution News: The Multiverse: From...
kairosfocus SG, further doubling down. You are clearly missing the essential character of God. No entity as was suggested by Dawkins... – L&FP, 60: Illustrating an all too...
JVL Origenes: It’s obvious that freedom & responsibility requires control, wouldn’t you say? That's not what I gathered from your comment... – From IAI News: How infinity threatens...
Origenes JVL @358 I don’t understand what ‘control’ has to do with it. It's obvious that freedom & responsibility requires control,... – From IAI News: How infinity threatens...
JVL Relatd: Recently, the universe is described as flat, like a sheet of paper. Or it is shaped like a saddle.... – From IAI News: How infinity threatens...
relatd Jerry at 356, Seriously? Please identify these "forces." I want names. "... there are definitely forces out there that want... – From IAI News: How infinity threatens...
asauber I'm with JVL, re:#355 "Let us suppose" x3 "if" x2 "might" x2 Andrew – From IAI News: How infinity threatens...
JVL Origenes: Even under the wild assumption that the brain is free, the following problem remains: what magical tool is available... – From IAI News: How infinity threatens...
JVL Jerry: Why is uncertainty a necessity for our lives? I don't think I said it was a 'necessity'. Above, I... – From IAI News: How infinity threatens...
Sir Giles KF: Dawkins presents an ethical caricature of God distorted to the point of slander, precisely by signally failing to recognise... – L&FP, 60: Illustrating an all too...
Fasteddious BA77 @ 6 & 7: I read through your reply and fail to see any "nuanced falsification" of my note... – At Evolution News: The Multiverse: From...
jerry This whole sidetrack is like most things on UD, much ado about nothing. Some clown comes along with spotty thinking,... – From IAI News: How infinity threatens...
Origenes JVL @353 It seems sensible to me to assume that there can be no complete deterministic system; there will always... – From IAI News: How infinity threatens...