lavalamp comments on Rationality Lessons in the Game of Go - Less Wrong

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Comment author: lavalamp 22 August 2010 02:52:16AM 6 points [-]

Thank you for writing this article.

If I can add one thing: A game of go is very long, often 250+ moves. Mistakes you make early on might take 50 or 100 moves before you start to feel their effects. As such, the game encourages long-term thinking. If you are rushing around putting out fires all over the board, you are not winning. I often find myself wishing I could teach my company's management go for this reason.

Go really does reward rational thinking. Games I play by feel and intuition are fun, but if I take my time and try to make rational decisions at each point I play much better.