(Eli’s personal notes, mostly for his own understanding. Feel free to respond if you want.)
It seems to me obvious, though this is the sort of point where I’ve been surprised about what other people don’t consider obvious, that in general exact imitation is a bigger ask than superior capability. Building a Go player that imitates Shuusaku’s Go play so well that a scholar couldn’t tell the difference, is a bigger ask than building a Go player that could defeat Shuusaku in a match. A human is much smarter than a pocket calculator but would still be unable to imitate one without using a paper and pencil; to imitate the pocket calculator you need all of the pocket calculator’s abilities in addition to your own.
Because imitation is a very exact target. There are many ways to be “as skilled at X as Y is”, but few (one?) way(s) to be “indistinguishable from Y in the domain of X.”
(Eli’s personal notes, mostly for his own understanding. Feel free to respond if you want.)
Because imitation is a very exact target. There are many ways to be “as skilled at X as Y is”, but few (one?) way(s) to be “indistinguishable from Y in the domain of X.”