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Re:Magnus Carlsen to give up World Championship title by bfuller on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @07:47AM (#32164339)
No idea their reasoning, but if I were a top football, swimmer, or other athlete and knew that a computer could outperform me even at my highest level would be pretty disconcerting.
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Re:Magnus Carlsen to give up World Championship title by Cass on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @07:56AM (#32164441)
That's already true of most sports, though. There's plenty of mechanical constructs that can move faster than the fastest human. The challenge is to be the fastest human using nothing but a human body, not to outrun a car or a boat (or even a humanoid running robot, which I assume we could build at this point, if anyone was interested in putting enough money behind it.)
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Re:Magnus Carlsen to give up World Championship title by bfuller on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @09:54AM (#32165830)
Of course a human can't outrun a car. This isn't some unprecedented idea, people have retired for this reason before:

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50573071

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Re:Magnus Carlsen to give up World Championship title by chalst on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @07:51AM (#32164399)
I guess swimmers have known that the performance of powered aquatic vehicles runs circles around them on many metrics for longer.
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Re:Magnus Carlsen to give up World Championship title by Gare on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @08:19AM (#32164680)
Not to mention some other mammals.
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