Re: Apple II: Second Best Tech Product of All Time!

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Charlie Springer wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 01:44:37 -0700, Michael J. Mahon wrote
> (in article <KLydnfZS8JKXe7zbnZ2dnUVZ_tadnZ2d@comcast.com>):
>
>
> > In any strategic planning situation, this would be quite telling.
> > An inorganic intelligence could compute 10 "moves" ahead while a
> > human was still pondering the first.
>
>
> At some point up the intelligence/precision scale conflict must depend on 
> introducing random processes. Without it, the opponents will find they can 
> predict each other's actions. Hiring human commanders could be a good way to 
> completely screw up the opponent's plans :-)

I agree, but this and many other heuristics, including those learned
from experience, would be exptected by all "players" and included in
their evaluations of situations and their potential outcomes.

(BTW, humans are a *terrible* source of randomness--they are much
too predictable!  And even "crafty" individuals make very biased
random number generators.)

-michael

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