Don Dailey wrote:

> It converges at perfect play. Thinking that it just happens to
> converge at the exact limits of current hardware is sort of like
> thinking the earth is the center of the universe just because this is
> where we happen to be right now. In 20 years with hardware 100x faster
> or more (assuming that happens) I'm sure people will also be saying
> that we have reached convergence. I saw this happen over a period of
> about 20 years in computer chess, it was always the same, computers
> have pretty much reached their limit and we need to try something
> else. Eventually people wised up, but it took a while. Now it starts
> all over again with Go.

There is a very big difference between saying "Computers have pretty
much reached their limit" and saying that a particular implementation
(with particular tuning parameters) doesn't get significantly stronger
when given more time.

-M-
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