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And ironically enough if you want to trounce an AI at something, then simply make some coffee, go for a jog, smell a few flowers and then go grocery shopping for the week. Super deep zero sum perfect knowledge games represent the least of our intelligence.

For a long time, Go was out of reach for any computational system and in a sense displayed the intellectual dominance of humans over algorithms in some capacity. To have that worldview shattered in a domain that has consumed your life could understandably push someone to give up.

i empathize with having to drastically restructure your world view. That must have been tough. i am just sad that his response seems to have been to devalue his own mastery instead of recognizing the inherent differences between him and the machine and learn from it what he could

I dunno, I stopped thinking now that I can peruse the Twitter hivemind to formulate all of my opinions.

I'd forgotten about @TayandYou... This is almost literal.

And boxers lay up their gloves when a permanently better boxer comes along. It all depends on why you play.

sure, and if he gave up his title to newcomer i would understand, but comparing himself to alphaGo would be like a boxer comparing themselves to a tank.