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01 / belief
“Considering the logic of the world championship history, Magnus should face opposition from a younger player, or the same age. So I would say there are three players that, I guess, could challenge him.”
02 / uncertainty
“Exactly. It’s an interesting philosophical question, and I have to confess, I don’t know the answer.”
03 / belief
“I think that if we try to make some projections into the future, you can hardly imagine Russia surviving as a state in its current borders.”
04 / belief
“I did well. In terms of perfect results, I would say Paris. I played a few events, but most remarkably, five rapid chess tournaments .”
05 / uncertainty
“Going back to computer chess, and I don’t know how much time you spend looking at the computer matches.”
06 / belief
“I think his match with Caruana could be also uncertain, and if Vachier-Lagrave makes some improvements, more psychological improvements, he could be also dangerous.”
07 / prediction
“Most likely, these groups will try to communicate with the West, to find some kind of an understanding and to reduce the tension. So, while I don’t expect an immediate democratic reconstruction in Russia after Putin’s collapse, I think that Putin’s fall, Putin’s demise, will serve Russia well, and also will help to reduce the pressure with our neighbors.”
08 / evaluation
“Dostoyevsky, underrated because it’s all about human nature. That doesn’t matter, whether you live in Russia in the third quarter of the 19th century or the first quarter of the 21st century, the human emotions, the human temptations, the human reactions — they are still very much the same.”
09 / prediction
“Now, I think if you tell them that autopilot’s not working in the plane, they will not fly because they understand that, in the big numbers, these decisions are still more qualitative.”
10 / evaluation
“” The question is — and this is a big question — if there are certain positions in these endgames, like seven-piece endgames, that take, by the best play of both sides, 500 moves to win the game, what does it tell us about the quality of the game that we play, which is an average 50 moves?”
11 / evaluation
“There’s so many new challenges. It’s up in space, down in the oceans, so many things that we’re not doing now because they’re too risky, and we like our comfortable life.”
12 / prediction
“We don’t know. That means that in the situation that you described, we’ll need new kind of lawyers, we’ll need new kind of expert that will be able to solve these problems.”
13 / preference
“It may not be specific. For instance, I’m more of a humanitarian, so I prefer history, literature.”
14 / prediction
“If we want to continue this experiment, or to put it in an extreme form, I would say that if we have Magnus Carlsen, the current world champion, offered an opportunity to play against the computer, say 10 games match, on the conditions that he wins the match if he wins one game, which means he can play all the games without thinking about losing the game by making a mistake.”
15 / prediction
“More intelligent machines, I understand that they will take over more menial aspects of cognition and will elevate our lives towards curiosity, creativity, beauty, joy, you can continue this line.”
16 / uncertainty
“My answer is I don’t know. That’s what I believe is good because that tells us that there’s so much to learn in this process.”