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The Great Antidote

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Chess and the Tiger Story

Golf and chess are in some ways like uniquely horrible models of most things that people want to learn so extrapolating is a problem. Chess really the grandmaster's advantage is largely based on knowledge of recurring patterns right stable rules and knowledge of repeating patterns such that if you haven't actually started studying by about age 12 then your chances of reaching international master status or higher international master status is one down from grandmaster drops from like one and four to about one in 55. I don't know if we're gonna automate golf but I guess that's probably not something you're thinking ofYeah I don't you know there is a golfer um but he was showing me videos of a robot gol

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