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    Move over AlphaGo: AlphaZero taught itself to play three different games

    We also need a non-tendentious definition of "more difficult," since it's not at all clear that Chess is less difficult for humans than Go, although that claim is made in the article. Both games overextend the best human intellects, so at some point, they're "equally difficult," depending on the...
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    Elon Musk, Twitter’s next owner, provides his definition of “free speech”

    I'm mystified and have no idea who even posted the weird reply (if that is what it is) that my boilerplate philosophical musings based on dozens of philosophy courses over the years, at Macalester College and then in undergrad and grad school at the U, then in law school at what was then William...
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    Elon Musk, Twitter’s next owner, provides his definition of “free speech”

    The overwhelming consensus on here seems on the mark --- the acquisition is far more about Elon Musk's ego than any deep concern for freedom of speech and expression. Has there ever been a society of any kind, from the level of a band, a small settlement, a wandering tribe, a small city, on...