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AI: The x'000 year-old game of competitive backgammon may well have to change...

Posted By: Sebalotek
Date: Sunday, 25 February 2024, at 9:16 p.m.

I don't wish to be the bearer of 'not all good news', but back in 2023, I made a post on Facebook:

Subject: The x'000 year-old game of competitive backgammon may well have to change. Drastically. Forever.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1017340842031433/permalink/1710637202701790/

I thought the potential ramifications of my 'heads-up!' would spark some remedial discussion for mitigation within the backgammon community.

Maybe the platform was not quite right.

Before panic and palpitations set in, let me add - I don't mean now, but perhaps 100 years in the future. (Or perhaps 50. Or maybe even less)

I had suggested that with the relatively imminent refinement and adoption of BCI (brain-computer interface) units, many of our offspring and perhaps even some of ourselves will be wont to take advantage of the abilities afforded by digital augmentation:

  • Maybe we will have an enhancement to help us with our jobs
  • Maybe a plugin to help us with our navigation
  • Maybe an expert chef to help us bake a cake
  • Maybe a 4-ply bot to help us smash that rotten shark down the local chouette /s

I'll keep this reasonably brief, so here are some related videos...

60 minutes from 2018 (6 year old tech (non-implant) which has almost certainly progressed)

https://x.com/60Minutes/status/988197017603264512?s=20

This week, 2024...

CBC News https://youtu.be/DmqSYgM8QHc?si=LIFB8cWFU2TH769x&t=249 (joystick is not connected)

Yahoo Finance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj9v5pGApV4

Michael Chua, MD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjHAN5ersDo

Extrapolate outwards: think corporate competition, commercialisation, process refinement, miniaturisation, mass-production, retail demand and pricing, and finally, the driver of 'competition' and its role in both social and physical evolution...

N.B. There are uncountable other potential ramifications (including opportunities), but I won't go into those now.

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