Lee Sedol Beats AlphaGo in Game 4

Re:Lee Sedol Beats AlphaGo in Game 4 by simonh on Sunday March 13, 2016 @02:29PM (#11278741)

Frankly many pre-modern, pre-civilizarion humans were assholes. Read many studies or accounts of life in relatively isolated tribal societies and hair curlingy awful accounts of violent and sometimes institutionalised abuse are uncomfortably common. Leave the safety catches off basic human urges for long and it can get pretty ugly.

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Re:Lee Sedol Beats AlphaGo in Game 4 by ceejayoz on Sunday March 13, 2016 @04:02PM (#11279113)

> Frankly many pre-modern, pre-civilizarion humans were assholes.

While it's somewhat news to me, I'm very glad to hear we've moved past that.

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Re:Lee Sedol Beats AlphaGo in Game 4 by Sharlin on Sunday March 13, 2016 @04:53PM (#11279287)

I hope that was irony.

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Re:Lee Sedol Beats AlphaGo in Game 4 by ceejayoz on Sunday March 13, 2016 @08:04PM (#11280099)

Very much so. Many modern, "civilized" humans are assholes, and now we've got global audiences for it!

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Re:Lee Sedol Beats AlphaGo in Game 4 by eru on Sunday March 13, 2016 @05:43PM (#11279479)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Natur...

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Re:Lee Sedol Beats AlphaGo in Game 4 by Sharlin on Sunday March 13, 2016 @07:37PM (#11279990)

Yes, I know, it's just completely insane to declare that we've somehow qualitatively moved past our brutish origins as long as torture, rape, and murder remain de facto extensions to politics.

I have no reason to doubt that quantitatively we have made some progress - although Pinker's arguments are most definitely not universally accepted in the scientific community.

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