@DjangoWexler@maxgladstone It might give a rough scale for the problem though, does it oops into a win after 10 games? 1,000? 100,000? Ultimately a limited test, but perhaps illuminating in specific ways.
@DjangoWexler@maxgladstone That's entirely fair, it is a strong assumption. It does suggest that this is testable proposition. Presumably it's possible to set up a chess engine in a deterministic mode (constant seed) and either play against it as a person, or an actual genetic algo?
@maxgladstone@DjangoWexler I think the question here is not exactly "Can you become better at chess than Kasparov?" it's "Can you random walk your way into a win with enough iterations?" A human genetic algorithm.
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