Lee Sedol Beats AlphaGo in Game 4

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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