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Cannot Out-Play a Superior Chess Engine

Negotiating with or trying to outmaneuver a superintelligence is like a beginner trying to play harder chess against Stockfish or Magnus Carlsen: you can be confident you will be crushed without being able to predict the specific moves, because predicting exactly how a superior player wins would require being as good as they are.

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Speaker

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Evidence Quote

even though i don't know exactly where magnus carlsen is going to move in response to your moves i'm extremely confident he's going to crush you at chess... the failure to put yourself in the shoes of the opposing chess player and imagine that the opposing chess player has seen what you see

Source

434 - Can We Survive AiMaking Sense with Sam Harris
Created: 6/14/2026, 2:10:11 AM

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