"This is content production in the age of algorithmic discovery — even if you’re a human, you have to end up impersonating the machine."https://twitter.com/alicemazzy/status/927598668076781569 …
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the reason AlphaGo's playstyle is so novel is that almost all human players had learnt theirs by copying another human player
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whereas AlphaGo developed its organically
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it's not that human intuition is limited, but that it hadn't been used; human learning had been more machine-y than machine learning
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copying an existing winning strategy being more economical than developing one from scratch
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mean... this kind of requires positing that in two to four thousand years the number of people who thought "maybe i should come up with my own thing instead of copying what these jerks are doing" was zero
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not zero, but not very large, either
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like, if you're learning a new thing, you'll probably want see what the people already good at it are doing, and then try and be like them
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instead of going around stabbing at the dark all random-like
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yes, but so long as your cramped corner is written in Latin & most of the public can't write their name, you're still space aliens
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