[extropy-chat] Bluff and the Darwin award

[Russell Wallace]

On 5/17/06, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky <sentience at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Russell, your argument also proves that Deep Blue's programmers can't
> make changes to Deep Blue that improve its playing ability without
> actually testing it in many games against Kasparov.  One game can't
> possibly be enough to distinguish between potential changes because the
> win or loss only provides one bit of information.


Actually, I've seen people who work on grand master level chess software
comment that not only do they have to test putative improvements in actual
chess games, but that it helps a great deal to have a human expert on hand
to point out the strengths and weaknesses in the program's play.
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