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.

jerry to debating how the military lies etc? KF People are here to rant not understand. The Magna Carter points out... – Os Guinness: The Magna Carta of...
kairosfocus L&FP, 65: So, you think you understand the double slit experiment? (HT, Q & BA77) --> Physics TV! – L&FP, 65: So, you think you...
kairosfocus Folks, how did we get from Metaxas and Os Guinness [BTW, one of Francis Schaeffer's proteges and so VERY aware... – Os Guinness: The Magna Carta of...
kairosfocus Origenes, no, the computer does not implement or even replicate reasoning, which requires freedom to evaluate, judge, decide etc. It... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
jerry Any idea coming from the left is by definition wrong. They are appealing but 100% wrong. If they were right... – Os Guinness: The Magna Carta of...
bornagain77 CD, you do realize that Feynman made that comment in 1965 do you not? If you would have watched the... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
chuckdarwin Querius [M]ultiple direct experimental results have confirmed quantum behavior for over a hundred years. You are deliberately ignoring my point.... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
Origenes KF @, PM1 KF: Which turns up the invisible part, information. (...) Yes, functionally specific, complex organisation and/or associated information.... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
Origenes ~ follow-up #299 ~ On the problem of explaining reason naturalistically, Nagel writes: the obstacles seem enormous. In light of... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
bornagain77 Q, that is a nice home experiment, but, as you know, where things get really weird is when you send... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
Querius Bornagain77 @181, Per Q in 175, “Other people simply hide behind ignorance by claiming that there’s a lot of controversy,... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
Querius Chuckdarwin @180, Collapse of the wave function? Come on folks…… Unlike Darwinian evolution, multiple direct experimental results have confirmed quantum... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
relatd CD at 180, "So why in the world would anyone take seriously the pretentious, jargon-ladened comments found on this blog... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
chuckdarwin Power corrupts and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely. BTW, your last slide is crooked…… – Os Guinness: The Magna Carta of...
relatd Vb at 17, I never said the military said anything. Whatever this Chinese balloon was carrying will never be known.... – Os Guinness: The Magna Carta of...
relatd Ba77, I doubt many here have seen a sine wave on an oscilloscope. Strangely, the wave moves up and down.... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
vividbleau Related “I’ve spent many years studying the military” Then you should know better than to believe the military. They lied... – Os Guinness: The Magna Carta of...
bornagain77 Per Q in 175, "Other people simply hide behind ignorance by claiming that there’s a lot of controversy, no one... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
chuckdarwin You got to love it when these comments take on a life of their own and wander off into la,... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
bornagain77 JVL as to: But you do realise that the wave function is just a model of the reality, it’s not... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
Origenes Gorden Hawkes on Haldane: Haldane originally argued that “if materialism is true, it seems to me that we cannot know... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...