Bret, the rules of chess are an abstraction of a view of society that most of us acknowledge, in real life, is monstrous The idea a pawn's life has no value outside the competition between one king and another king is a *classic metaphor* for a tyrannical, inhuman moral systemhttps://twitter.com/BretWeinstein/status/1312268111836377088 …
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I know next to nothing about this - Wikipedia's take is a little different although I think the broader points remain - games are obviously tremendously influenced by the socio-politics of their day[s] and that dude has no idea how chess actually works.
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