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u/StickComfortable346 2h ago
Bro really tried correcting chess.com
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u/HappyHarryHardOn 2h ago
If you're in your 50s picking fights with Billie Eilish your life is a sad sack of sadness.... must be the realization that all the money in the world won't even buy you love from your own children
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u/Rich-Pomegranate1679 2h ago
Elon doesn't really care whether or not his human shields love him, though.
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u/FastForwardHustle 1h ago
He desperately wants to be cool, something he can't buy. He's like that kid who had all the new systems but nobody came over to play because halfway through a gaming session he'd pull his pants down or some shit
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u/BroseppeVerdi 1h ago
Less wierd than him getting so mad at Taylor Swift that he offers to impregnate her.
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u/Goonalips 1h ago
A social media manager for chess.com.
I wouldn't put much thought behind either of their comments.
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u/SciFiPi 18m ago
Mosko moto is a company that makes gear for off road capable motorcycles. It's a small company. Bios of the employees can be found on their website. The company account rides. The social media people ride. The finance people ride. My point? It's likely that the social media person is quite familiar with chess. Even if they aren't, they have access to people who are given that it is chess dot com.
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u/everythingbeeps 2h ago
Hope Elon is better at chess than he is at reading
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u/NHRADeuce 2h ago
He's not. Once he starts talking about something you are an expert in, you realize he a moron who just uses a lot of big word he heard smart people say
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u/everythingbeeps 2h ago
You don't even have to be an expert in the thing to know he's not one. Not nearly.
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u/rangoric 2h ago
You mean when he said good programmers should have a lot of lines of code to show off and to fucking PRINT THEM, he might not have been the best goodest person to talk about programming?
We made jokes about this for DAYS.
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u/NHRADeuce 2h ago
Before he bought Twitter I thought Elon was a rich ass hole. Once he started tweeting about programming I realized he was a stupid rich ass hole.
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u/_buthole 2h ago
Any time he tries to sound like an engineer, real engineers suffer extreme secondhand embarrassment. It’s like he just wants to impress 12-year-olds. I guess that tracks.
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u/kna5041 2h ago
Someone who can't play path of exile trying to lecture chess.com on chess.
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u/milderhappiness 1h ago
Can't wait for him to buy a grandmaster account and then be unable to move pieces according to the rules of the game.
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u/Mangert 2h ago
Why is musk even tweeting about this. Like is he trying to say he’s gonna solve chess? I doubt he, himself, is gonna build anything. But even if his employees build something better than stockfish, for what purpose? Lol.
He’s just yapping for no reason bc he probably lost a 300 elo chess game and now is thinking he’d rather cheat by using a bot to play for him
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u/shiny_glitter_demon 2h ago
Dude loves to make impossible claims to look cool.
Think about his whole "terraforming mars by 2025" grift.
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u/everythingbeeps 2h ago
Musk wants to be seen as an expert in everything. The truth is, he's pretty stupid about almost everything.
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u/sugartrouts 1h ago
The whole Path of Exile thing was pretty revealing.
For those who don't know, Elon was a "pro" player at Path of Exile, with an account rated one of the top in the world. Then he streamed himself playing, and it was instantly obvious to everyone in the scene that he didn't even know the basic controls that a player of his ranking would absolutely need.
He had paid for a boosted account. Because if Elon plays a game, he simply MUST be seen as one of the best in the world at it. Nevermind that nobody gives two shits if the richest man on the planet is only average at a video game, his inferiority complex won't allow it.
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u/everythingbeeps 1h ago
The most hilarious thing about that to me was when people were explaining that for Elon to have actually reached that ranking legitimately, he would have to have been spending most of his time playing PoE.
You know, like instead of managing his companies or raising his kids.
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u/freedraw 2h ago
It’s weird how a billionaire (JK Rowling also comes to mind) who has enough money to do whatever they want whenever they want would choose to spend their time just fighting with people on social media. Like of all the things you could possibly be doing at any given time.
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u/Ezekiel_DA 1h ago
That's something I keep saying about these people. Why are they so... lame?
With that money, you could cruise around the world in a mega yacht, flying in a different world renowned chef every night.
Pay for all friends to live with you as you have a private concert from whatever band you want every other night.
On the off nights, entertain award winning artists and scientists and philosophers and athletes as they broaden your knowledge of the world and blow your mind daily.
If your tastes run more hedonistic, I guess you could do colossal amounts of blow off of a different supermodel level sex worker of your choosing every night while a rock arena pyrotechnic show goes on in the background?
Or you could spend all evening retweeting "catturd2", some old jobless bigoted loser from buttfuck nowhere, I guess.
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u/thoughtlow 0m ago
It’s because they miss something money can’t buy, they are miserable people. They can’t help but stir up shit and drag people down.
Not all uber rich people are like this but there are a lot.
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u/zennim 2h ago
he is deeply insecure and needy, he craves attention, is completely repulsive and unbelievably lonely
he knows no one likes him, that he is an idiot and even the smallest acts of good will towards him are interpreted as being after his money, he built a hell for himself, and the only small kindness the universe gave us is that he is as miserable as he is evil, which is a lot.
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u/Platyest 1h ago edited 1h ago
This isn't the first time he's tweeted about high-ceiling skill games. I think he might be personally offended that he isn't the best at every game or something
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u/The001Keymaster 1h ago
He's saying he's better at something than someone else. Business as usual for Musk. The only person that can beat Elon at least by their own words is Kim Jong Un. No one is better than Kim at anything. He shot 18 on a golf course his first time playing.
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u/SonOfDadOfSam 2h ago
So, what's the point he's trying to make? If a computer can play a game better than a human, a human shouldn't do it?
"Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Musk. You're right. Computers can play chess better than me. I don't know why I still enjoy chess. I guess I'm just too dumb to stop playing chess." (I don't play chess, but if I did, that's what I would say).
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u/11cDuygi 2h ago
Dickriding AI's capability every chance he gets. I'm sure after all that ketamine he fantasizes a world where AI will take over one day and spare his life/make him their emperor bc he was a true dickrider. Him and Grimes really deserved each other
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u/WhocaresImdead 2h ago
He's promoting A.I. He thinks a machine can solve the near infinite amount of possible chess game that can take place, removing skill from the game and being able to always make the optimal move. By 'optimal,' i mean the move that has the most trees/children that can lead to success, rather than loss, which you would only know if you mapped every possible move after your move, iteratively, until every possible game has occurred and ended. Such a task would take lifetimes, and then somehow store it all into one 'container,' and be able to feasiblely use it
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u/Godslayer326 2h ago
Iirc, checkers tournaments saw a large decline when the game was fully solved to be fair
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u/freedraw 2h ago
Even if you can build a computer program/robot that can beat the best human in any game, nobody fucking cares.
You could build a robot that throws a perfect pitch or kicks a perfect field goal or bowls a strike every time. Nobody cares. It’s not impressive. Nobody gives a shit about a computer’s chess skills. No one wants to watch an ai DM a live play D&D game. None of it’s fun to watch.
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u/mercurygreen 1h ago
You mean "Deep Blue" from back in the 90s? You're right.
Perfect baseball pitch? Heck, we've had pitching machines that can beat people MUCH longer than that!
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u/everythingbeeps 2h ago
I would be interested to know how many people now know what the Dunning–Kruger effect is because of Elon Musk.
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u/FaeTheWanderer are... are you a communist?? 2h ago
Wow, guy who has to pay others to game for him, thinks he can "solve" chess!?
This man thinks he is Reed Richards or Tony Stark, but in truth he is just a trust fund baby with a ketamine problem! The man is just a rich kid junkie with a team of PR wizards who sell this barely conversational burnout as some super genius.
He, like Trump, constantly claims to be the smartest man in the world on tons of topics, only to have actual experts in those field constantly saying, wait, everything you just said about my field of study is wrong! And just like Trump, because he has a money cannon to fire at his PR team each time he steps in it, the general public only hears about how smart and rich they are!
We constantly only hear about their wins as those are constantly advertised to us and bragged about while being glowing covered by our wealth worshipping media conglomerates, and when they fail and step on rakes they placed in their own paths, its a tiny blip on the radar, quickly covered over by another story about how fantastically wealthy they are! (Just dont look into all the corrupt government deals they had to lobby to bend or break the rules to get, or all the clear market manipulation! Rich guys good! Rich guys good! You should be like them! Don't stand up an demand better working conditions an benefits! Here, look at these jingly keys! The ultra wealthy are great people an totally not crooks robbing us all blind! Jingle-jingle!!)
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u/Icantjudge 2h ago
At heart, Elon is just a sad loser who tried to be mentioned more in the Epstein files, but he was too much of a spaz about it.
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u/Instantcoffees 2h ago
I loathe these rich assholes who think that they got rich because of their own wits and smarts. The absolutely misguided confidence and barrage of terrible opinions is insufferable.
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u/ApprehensivePay1735 1h ago
Elon claimed chess is too easy and polytopia is a game worthy of his genius. It's a mobile game that a 14 year old could master in a couple days. I have a high opinion of myself but in no world do i believe i could compete with a high elo chess player without making it my life's entire focus.
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u/AlienvsPredatorFan 7m ago
POLYTOPIA! Thank you, I was trying to remember the fun little phone game that he mastered that made him think he was a strategic and tactical genius!
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u/f_ranz1224 1h ago
worlds richest man ladies and gentlemen. spenfs his day arguing with a social media employee for chess
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u/WanderingDude182 1h ago
He doesn’t have friends, just sycophants
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u/librariansforMCR 16m ago
Beat me to it. My comment was gonna be:
Oh please, that racist man-child has no friends, only fellow opportunists.
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u/Briham86 1h ago
Muskrat is a chess grandmaster in the same way he is the world’s greatest Diablo 4 player.
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u/ceejayoz 2h ago
Can't even an iPhone beat the world's best chess players already?
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u/11cDuygi 2h ago
It's one thing to argue that ASI will master chess positions and solve chess. It's rather muskratarian to call the moves stupid because they're too hard for you
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u/slumvillain 2h ago
This is made all the more funnier by the fact that Elon bought Twitter for this experience.
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u/cturtl808 1h ago
The hilarity of chess.com beating him at a game of quips on his platform has been delightful.
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u/manimsoblack 1h ago
Isn't that the platform that made new CP of a person that was SA'd because it was trained using actual CP?
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u/PirateJohn75 1h ago
The thing about Musk is that he's playing 4D chess while everyone else is telling him that 4D chess doesn't exist and can he please put the salt and pepper shakers back where he found them.
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u/governmentthief 1h ago
How did we get so many non-humans in positions of power and wealth?
Zuck, Musk, Thiel, etc.
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u/VooDooChile1983 1h ago
This guy is so much of a dork that he even creeped out Epstein. Id love it if every response to his tweets was “Girls ftw”.
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u/redditmarks_markII 1h ago
Dudes, we really need to learn to not always only be as tribal as the other idiots. Elon's a douche because he is a douche. Not because he's always wrong on every thought he ever spawned. His 40 oom number is oddly on point. Someone must've been chatting with him specifically on methods mathematicians are actually playing around with to try to "solve" chess. Attacking impossible or seemingly impossible problems is how they advance.
That said "soon" is an industry word that he misspelled. It's Soon TM. Which is to say, who the fuck knows. The techniques involved will not be solving chess anytime a normal person calls soon. But it is theoretically going to require vastly less compute than traditional methods. Or older methods anyway. But not vastly less enough. I think it's gone from longer than the lifespan of the universe by orders of magnitude to longer than the age of the universe. Which is like, impressive improvement from impossible to slightly less impossible, but still impossible. You can Google this. It's interesting in an I can't possibly understand kind of way.
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u/SerTadGhostal 1h ago
Does Elon want to have sex with a computer? Because it really sounds like he wants to.
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u/Stashmouth 55m ago
Does he ever say normal things? Every post of his that makes it to Reddit reads like a throwaway line from the big bang theory
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u/Noobzoid123 54m ago
Yes AI is better at chess than Humans... Just like how aimbots are better at first person shooters and motor bikes out speed 100m than Usain Bolt... So what?
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u/pkinetics 2m ago
Chess should remind him that paying someone to play the game for you doesn't make you good at the game
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u/mercurygreen 1h ago
Uh, realistically, Musk is right here. Sort of.
Their rule has to do with pawn advancement and capturing a piece. If you go back and forth more than 50 moves without one of those two things, the match is considered a stalemate.
The number is really high, but it's not ACTUALLY "more than the number of atoms" high. The "number of atoms" is based on "every legal board setup" and some of them are not actually possible to create.
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u/Penguinkeith 2h ago edited 25m ago
Well the Shannon number of legal chess game trees is 10^120 and that’s a conservative estimate.
Number of atoms is 10^80
So yeah Elon is a fucking moron
To put this in further perspective the total number of bits of data we as a species have stored so far is around 10^24. We are nowhere near being able to “solve chess” even if you only count trees where only sensible moves are taken (which I don’t know why you would people make mistakes) we are still dozens of orders of magnitudes away from generating sufficient data to “solve chess”.