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Let me explain my point further by giving an example of what knowledge exactly are we talking about here, that engines and endgame tablebases possess, but in much more concrete form, which raises the question of software possibility to extract it from them in an abstract form, like I will present he...

Initially I envisaged this discussion to be about explanations in the context of chess, and in the last minute I changed my mind about the title, which usually is not good. If we assume that we have a precise definition of information, can we define precisely what information counts as an explanatio...

I was watching this video on youtube https://youtu.be/ig380wp10aQ?t=111 in which Gary Kasparov says that machines revealed so many secrets, and magic or mysteries of the game of chess are gone because you could see it through the lenses of computer and even an amateur can actually understand immedia...

Everything, even a box of chocolates, but that is even further far from the perfect metaphor. And unlike chess, it does not make you wonder about this question: “Despite of the fact that a calculated person has a negative connotation in its attribute, isn’t a good calculation ability a fundamental h...

One such leader was Jesus, who on several occasions implied that people are too rational, worry too much about their prospects, and it sounded strange to many of them, then and now, followers or not. As for the Information asymmetry, yes, that is another distinction, because in bridge and poker, vis...

True. Bridge and poker are also not games of perfect information, but they are still games in which pure luck is far less important factor in comparison with player’s skill and determination. As for life, well, maybe it is not entirely out of reach of our intuition to know if we win or lose, maybe p...

Hi Nick,

nice response. What I wonder about is if rationality is the fundamental human virtue, if present in adequate extent. One of its aspects is the realization that its presence can be excessive.

Is it possible to be overly rational in chess? If we disregard the intended pun in the title of Kasparov’s book, one can say that chess as a simulation of life is far from perfect. Chess is a zero sum game, life is not always. Chess is all about fight, when it is not, it does not fulfil its purpose,...

As conciseness is one of main mathematical features, I would like to discuss one particular instance of it. Can someone please summarize in that context the usefulness of excluding number one from the set of prime numbers? As the definition of prime numbers would be more concise without it, ie if on...

Hi Skepdick, nice to talk with you again, after a while. Yes, I think I was looking for a category theory. I was positive it was already mathematically theorized before, with much more exactness than I displayed, but I was not sure how to google for it, so I wrote the question here, just sketching m...

That difference between these two differences can be defined like this: Consider two objects o1 and o2, if they share common property p, for which subtraction is well defined operation, then the quantitative difference between them with respect to property p is o1.p-o2.p, where the operands are valu...

These are both interesting analogies, disk defragmentation, and undo/redo logs in relational databases, with respect to junk DNA. But when I mentioned the analogy of DNA storing the information for the construction of a whole organism, in a very compact way, or compressed if you will, I didn't have ...

Aha, you were emphasizing their lack of ability to reproduce them selves independently of the host cell. Yes, I agree, the confirmation of superior intelligence I was talking about was to create the artificial intelligent self reproducible entities in our own image and likeness (like God created a M...

And I don’t think that the fact that certain parts of DNA don’t code for anything, either because they are silenced in the process of differentiation or they don’t code anywhere because they are “junk”, that diminishes the fact of compression or losslessness. I mean, it is a kind of metaphor as all ...

Except, I'm guessing, when those self-replicators are viruses? I'm guessing that you are guessing that viruses lack intelligence? Well, it obviously depends on the definition of that word, but even they don't lack heuristic adaptive behavior, as well as any living or semi-living entities, so no, I ...