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Re:Anthony Levandowski Pardoned by warkdarrior on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @12:40PM (#25849339)
> Consider a chessboard that's in the middle of a game. The moves up to that point don't matter. Only the current state of the board matters and you make the best move given the current position.

That is an immensely myopic view. Analyzing the game up to now and understanding the opponent's style of play and tactical preferences are very useful in planning your next move, especially when you have multiple, equally weighted choices.

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Re:Anthony Levandowski Pardoned by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @01:22PM (#25849916)
Also analyzing your moves that got you to that point. Don't like where things are now? Well, what did you do to get here?

Levandowski may wind up convicted of something else if he doesn't learn from history... his history. So maybe he really ought to look at it a bit.

On the other hand, when you've messed up, and you understand that you've messed up, and you've learned what you can from it, then throwing away the past and moving on is perhaps a psychologically healthy thing.

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