[FRIAM] Curmudgeons Unite!

[Steve Smith]

Jon-

I would find it fascinating (if possibly/assuredly misleading) for
someone well-schooled in Go Strategy/Tactics and history to establish a
running commentary on the specific moves afoot in our (national/global)
political (socioeconomic) go-board.  

My last foray into Go beyond trying to learn to play casually 10 years
ago was during the 1983 CA conference in Los Alamos when there was a lot
of discussion of using CA to construct Chess/Checkers/Go playing
programs.  

I don't remember (nor can find) any papers directly referencing the
subject at that time, and when I tried to follow up on the Go aspect
(in1983), I got sidetracked into Gosper's proto-Hashlife memoization CA
conception... which promised to support "seeding" such game-players with
middle-and end-game "gambits".   I don't even know if that is the right
term and bashing through GoogleSearches only leads me further astray
down a multiscale foam of white-rabbit warrens.

Some of the more interesting vestibules in the maze of rabbit-warrens:

  * Gambit Project: software tools for game theory
    <http://www.gambit-project.org/>
  * Hashlife, memoization and entropy
    <https://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/susan/bib/ss/nonstd/index.htm>
  * AlphaGo <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXuK6gekU1Y>
  * Go as Cellular Automata - xah lee
    <http://xahlee.info/cmaci/ca/go_cellular_automata.html>
  * Hexaganol Go - xah lee
    <http://xahlee.info/math/go_board_variations.html>
  * ...

I am left wondering if some of the recent FriAM maunderings are not
relevant.    First level Go strategy involves the tension between
"connection and separation" and literal vs virtual or potential versions
of both which rhymes slantly (I hear?) with the "cohesion/coupling"
discussion, as well as the "epiphenomenon" discussion and the more
background/constant consideration of "emergence".

I'm way over my TL;DR limit as usual, but I will tag on that my own
throwdown in CA is a (never realized) foray into an (k-1)^2
decomposition of space (vs k-d/quad-oct-tree partitioning)..   the key
to the concept is to maximize redundancy and coverage of pattern space
vs space-efficient decomposition.  I believe it has a play in the
generalization of Guerin's dual-field stuff, especially in the context
of the patch-turtle duality of Netlogo.    But I'm too busy wandering
through the self-similar foamy white-rabbit warrens to do more than make
short stepwise motion in that direction every few years.     Which
triggers another diversion into Glen's "diachronic" vs "episodic"...  
trying to understand if there is a yet-more-general model of which this
distinction is a (useful but) degenerate form, explaining my (and
other's) propensity for rabbit-hole-diving, and (possibly) the long-term
or large-scale utility of same?

mumble/ramble

- Steve

On 8/19/20 11:07 PM, jon zingale wrote:
> The current administration enjoys making *big moves* both in rhetoric
> and action, all establishment without fortification. The 20th-century
> weiqi master, Go Seigen, is known for a remarkable strategy that may
> find an analog here. Go Seigen would often cede the biggest moves to his
> opponent while playing in such a way as to introduce *imperfections of
> shape* in the other's unsettled groups. Slowly, he would build thickness
> around the board with which to harass, overwhelm, and ultimately defeat
> his opponent.
>
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