Career, Physics and Goals (was: Artificial General Intelligence Speculations)

The video looks at a chess game that he lost. He lost due to a single bad move which lost to a two-move sequence. He’s a good enough player that, in general, that shouldn’t happen to him (he actually won the tournament and this was his only loss). He wasn’t in time pressure. As a first impression, you could call it careless. YouTube’s automated transcript where he talks about what to learn from the mistake:

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so

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what’s the deal how do you you know take

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anything away from you know blundering a

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two-move tactic in your game

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well the important thing is to be

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brutally honest with yourself you know

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it’s very very easy to write off uh one

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or two move blunders as

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you know an unavoidable fact of chess

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you’re always going to blunder sometimes

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nobody is immune to blunders certainly

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not me and if you follow professional

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tournaments every once in a blue moon

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you’ll see them blunders something

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similar you know everybody is capable of

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missing a two-move tactic

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but oftentimes you can trace it back to

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a mistake in your thinking process

This explanation is relevant to the discussion with lmf. Deciding to “write off” chess math errors, instead of tracing them “back to a mistake in your thinking process”, is what lmf was doing. lmf also thought errors like that were an “unavoidable fact of” chess math.

EDIT: I put this in the wrong thread and moved it.