<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 9:23 PM, Adrian Tymes </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:atymes@gmail.com" target="_blank">atymes@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><br></span></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">
><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​>​</div><font size="4"> It seems to me the next logical step would be to switch the program's</font></span><span style="font-size:large"> interest from getting better at the game of GO to improving computer code,<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ ​</div></span><span style="font-size:large">including its own. I wonder where that could lead.</span></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">
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</span><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​> ​</div>Who judges whether the result is an improvement?  In go, there is an<br>
objective standard it can assess repeatedly, with no need for human<br>
supervision. </blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​<font size="4">A computer program ​that does the same thing as another but is smaller and executes faster is objectively better. </font></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4"><br></font></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">John K Clark</font></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>