[ExI] Three Way Chess

[sam micheal]

http://www.msu.edu/~micheal/

Okay, now you know the game.. Let's tell a story.

Imagine three players:
 1. a *cybernetically enhanced human*
 2. a *genetically enhanced human*
 3. a fully conscious *android*

Assign them colors: Blue, Red, and Pink respectively.

As you can see from the gameboard and rules, two may gang up on one, 
but.. If they do that, there's a price - they must fight it out at the 
end and.. The one who actually captures the other's king gets control of 
his pieces. So, is there really a motivation for gang-warfare?

This essay is deep in many respects. Consider it fully. There are many 
lessons to be learned from it.

Who will win? My prediction is #1: the cyborg because only he has 'the 
best of both worlds' (he's the only true hybrid). True, the psychic 
could use PK or ESP to win the game, but that's cheating. If they play 
fair, I believe the cyborg would win.

Again, there are many lessons in this scenario. The first being: why the 
hell do we have to play adversarial roles in our world??? (This is very 
common between 'craft and management' in large corporations.)

The world is our chessboard. Politicians are the gamepieces. But they 
posture and threat for resources. For what? An ideology??? Because they 
have 'the guns'???

It is wrong.

tbc off-forum, sam
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