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

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Comment author: TobyBartels 23 August 2010 04:09:07AM 3 points [-]

This reminds me of the Go maxim that (for a given board position and abstracting away the parity) your best move is the same as your opponent's best move. This is rare in real life, where the situation isn't so symmetric. But it does teach you to look at things from your opponent's perspective.