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Elon solves chess (media.piefed.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by negativenull@piefed.world to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
 

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Elon: The actual number of moves that are not utterly stupid in chess is tiny and chess will be fully solved one day

Chess.com: Skill issue

Elon: Chess is hard for humans, but not for computers. One day, it will be fully solved like checkers. Between now and then, or even after, have fun. People enjoy may games/sports where machines are vastly better.

Chess.com: There are more possible chess games, by about 40 order of magnitude, than atoms in the observable universe. To solve chess, you'd have to map them all. Good luck.

Elon: Wrong, all legal chess positions are ~40 ooms less than the estimated atoms in the Universe. And ASI will figure out ways to solve and compress that are far beyond what we could possibly comprehend. (Here I am arguing with some random intern at a chess website)

Chess.com: I'm a full-time employee

Elon: (something-emoji)

Chess.com: Even my friends don't text me back that fast

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[–] LordPassionFruit@lemmy.ca 363 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

"Even my friends don't text me back that fast" is a wonderful insult.

[–] disorderly@lemmy.world 145 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Our lad just starched the richest man in the world in his own office.

[–] fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip 34 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

straight up baking soda'd his ass

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[–] lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

When I read that line I audibly whispered

”god damn dude”

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[–] Godort@lemmy.ca 323 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

So I guess Elon tried to get into chess because it's a smart people hobby, got demolished, and now is having a sour grapes moment.

[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 94 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Probably also paid others to play for him like with his stupid video games, he's fucking pathetic.

I would be curious what his highest chess.com raing is. I got to 1650 once, a middling score, more often in the 1500s but don't play much now.

[–] cactusupyourbutt@lemmy.world 30 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

1650 a middling score?

cries in 800 elo

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[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 154 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

I don't know what he has against chess, but this is like the 3rd time I've seen him try to convince everyone that it's pointless because of computers.

[–] negativenull@piefed.world 184 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

Another classic example that proves this:

[–] lonefighter@sh.itjust.works 183 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

What I take from this is "I can't cheat, so I won't play"

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 124 points 2 weeks ago

"I keep losing because this game is TOO SPUPID"

[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 30 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh you can cheat at chess.com. People use engines to suss out the best moves and plug them into their games. Chess.com spots many, but not all of them, you will get notices after the fact that your rating has been changed upwards because they detected them cheating.

It's quite common.

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[–] StellarExtract@lemmy.zip 61 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's written like a deliberate parody of people like him, it's so ludicrous.

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[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 41 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

My theory is that he's frustrated that he can't manage a team or pay someone to get better at it for him.

The humility it takes to be a beginner at something is uncomfortable when you have a huge ego.

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[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 34 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Lol it means he has the same problem with it that I did: there's absolutely no random element to blame so when you lose you just fucking lose and that's all there is to it. The other person's brain just stepped on your brain and wiped it off on the curb.

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[–] socsa@piefed.social 25 points 2 weeks ago

Wow the most cringe comment possible. Amazing. He keeps doing it.

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[–] DandomRude@lemmy.world 72 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm pretty sure it's because he can't stand losing. The man clearly suffers from a narcissistic personality disorder.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Right? I'm sure he expected to immediately be a god at chess with no studying or practice, then got upset when that wasn't the case.

[–] DandomRude@lemmy.world 38 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

Yes, because of his financial success, he considers himself a genius—which he very obviously never was. This is a common trait among billionaires. Many of them are psychopaths who have amassed their wealth through utter unscrupulousness, irresponsibility in the form of an absurd willingness to take risks, and sheer luck.

In the case of Musk, Thiel, and various others, that stroke of luck was PayPal. That company was so successful that it made all of its investors immeasurably rich—it was more a matter of chance that PayPal succeeded, and everything that followed really wasn’t all that difficult because that kind of money cannot lose anymore no matter how ridiculous stupid someone might be.

That’s precisely the problem: We only hear about the people who bet everything on one card and won—they’re portrayed as geniuses, which they never were. We never hear anything about all those who failed miserably—and that’s the vast majority.

Billionaires aren’t geniuses or even above-average in intelligence. Their financial success has, in the rarest of cases, anything to do with intelligence.

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[–] socsa@piefed.social 142 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

I have been a full ass adult the entire time twitter has existed and I still don't fucking understand how the thread structure works.

[–] veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 55 points 2 weeks ago

Oh good I thought I was the only one having an aneurysm reading from top to bottom

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[–] BurgerBaron@quokk.au 91 points 2 weeks ago

The guy who pays people to play video games for him so he can fail at pretending he played himself in a "Hello, fellow kids" moment is pretending to be smart again? Wild.

[–] zitrone@europe.pub 77 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

wtf is the order one is supposed to read this in?

[–] ZMoney@lemmy.world 36 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Something I'll never understand about twitter. Maybe it was more readable before the nazi took it over?

[–] ratel@mander.xyz 37 points 2 weeks ago

It was always that unintuitive.

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[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 30 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] markz@suppo.fi 44 points 2 weeks ago

Month-day-year social media format

[–] huppakee@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The person who put three screenshot together would have gained so much respect to me if they just took 5 extra seconds to paste it in reading order.

[–] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago

Twitter-brained people think being Twitter-brained is the default.

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[–] blackjam_alex@lemmy.world 64 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

He's so insecure about his own intelligence.

Imagine being the richest man alive and your whole existence is being envious of other people's abilities.

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[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 63 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Elon Musk is the personification of a moron’s hallucination of a genius.

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[–] Buage_@piefed.social 59 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Even my friends don't text me back so fast

Lmaooooo love that reply 🤣

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 53 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

What is ASI? Adolescent Sexualised Imagery?

[–] Bad_Engineering@fedia.io 28 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Artificial Super Intelligence.

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[–] Sabin10@lemmy.world 46 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Elon Musk doesn't understand complex systems? Colour me I already knew that.

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[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 40 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

Literal proof that the rich ARE MORONS.

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

So he just saw "40 orders of magnitude" and decided that just happened to be the same number he needed to make his point (just going the other way).

Lol ok.

Legitimate question; does he know what an order of magnitude is?

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 34 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Ok;

This is the observable universe.

Not the entire universe, which we have no idea how large it is.

So the observable universe has 10^80 atoms or so. The number of possible moves in all possible chess games is supposed to be around 10^120. That number is called the “Shannon Number.”

According to this site.

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[–] Seimhe@lemmy.world 32 points 2 weeks ago

The man with the Large Paedophilia Model can’t even solve himself.

[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 31 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Elon wants to become a computer so badly, but not even he will put a neuralink chip in his head.

That speaks magnitudes about that tech tbh.

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[–] Smeagol666@crazypeople.online 30 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

I knew Melon Husk was a moron years ago. Just before the release of the Cyberdumpster, he had made an off-the-cuff statement about the quality of said vehicle as "having a tolerance of plus or minus five microns". At the time I worked for a company that made power train parts for all kinds of different makes and models of cars. specifically, I made what's known as a "spider", a type of gear that allows for flexibility at the joint: the part under the protective "boot" if you've ever glanced under a car. My job was running the machine that cuts the splines on the spider that makes it fit on the shaft. Even the smallest of spiders have an I.D. (inner diameter) tolerance of plus or minus fifteen microns.

I knew by Melon Head's comment that he either didn't know what the fuck a micron was, or just thought it would make him sound smart because nobody else did. This was back when he was at the height of his popularity, before he got involved with the orange Pedo-in-Chief and started throwing Nazi gang signs.

I'm glad that the Cyberdumpster was/is such a failure; those things are ugly as fuck. On the other hand, I hate that the rest of us will have to foot the bill for his fuck-ups.

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[–] wrinkle2409@lemmy.cafe 29 points 2 weeks ago (16 children)

Being able to solve checkers doesn't mean people will stop enjoying playing checkers. It is true that chess could be solved, although you don't really need to brute force every single possibility 'by hand' as that guy implied, but it won't mean people will stop playing it

[–] MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works 32 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Man with no friends doesn't understand the point of playing a game beyond "solving" and "winning" the game. I wonder why he has no friends.

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[–] MasutaHarada@thelemmy.club 24 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I don't know much about chess and how it works in professional stage, but even i know whatever that musk spout from his mouth are complete arrogance and bs

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[–] Prox@lemmy.world 24 points 2 weeks ago

This guy is such a loser.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 24 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Even though elon is like a bad James Bond villain he is nothing like the Bond villains from the movies. The movie Bond villains had sophistication and class.

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[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 22 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Elon Musk is a literal crackhead, on drugs for real, but I will admit that he isn't technically wrong that the pool of valid moves is more limited than total possible theoretical states. What he fails to realize is that counter-plays exist so there will always be a high level of strategy involved.

[–] artifex@piefed.zip 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think some people don’t understand what a pastime is. I don’t care if someone solves chess just like I don’t care if someone uses AI to generate an image. I play chess to play it. I make art to make it. The doing is the point of it.

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