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  • porous_grey_matter@lemmy.mlto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    1 month ago

    It’s more like playing chess with Magnus and making one move that the analysis judged a better move, since losing one piece of material might be advantageous for winning. And while that may not take centuries to happen, it is sure not a 50/50 chance or even a 1% chance.

    Or in a race with Usain Bolt, you would not take even one of your steps faster than any of his steps, either.


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    1 month ago

    You underestimate how much better experts are to everyone else. For chess, for example, the Elo rating for a beginner who knows the rules is about 500, a weak club player around 1200, a good club player around 1700, a master around 2200, and the world champion around 2800.

    For each of these jumps the difference is about 70 times better, as in the person with the weaker rating is expected to win one out of 70 times.

    So the world champion is not just 70 times better than a beginner, they are a few million times better.

    I’m not saying tennis works exactly the same way as chess, but people really underestimate just how much better some people are at some things. At that difference, the beginner and the champ could play games 24/7 for centuries and the beginner would never win one game.

    The idea that 67x better means a 67x linear increase in speed is nonsense. Usain Bolt does not need to be 67x faster than you, it’s enough to be somewhat faster in all 67 out of 67 races, which he would be.




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    2 months ago

    Having been to some European cities and having lived there are pretty different.

    Chicago has awesome cultural stuff and that makes it great to live in for some people, but there is nowhere in the USA which really has a good quality of life when it comes to transport, housing, working standards/rights, healthcare, the basic food in the supermarket, and so on and so on. Most of these things aren’t ones you notice when you just visit a place for a little while.