Hikaru Nakamura's Forbidden Platform

Post by robertlagrant » Fri, Aug 05, 2022, 3:38 PM UTC

dalbasal wrote: post #116

robertlagrant wrote: post #80

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This doesn't seem to be much to do with communism. You can operate not for profits or charities in capitalist systems (in fact some of its strongest proponents would much prefer people give money directly to charities to help people, rather than pay taxes to a government that might help people). I don't see what's communist about it. It's just that the developer has arrived at "charity" via the route of communism. Th…

That's why I noted "Thibault Communism" to narrow it to his specific thinking on this, which IMO is quite lovely and unique. TD is the one who who articulated it this way, and there are pretty strong logical and operative links between his ideas and actions. There are lots of differences between chess.com and Lichess, societal and otherwise. Anyway, I'm not claiming that Lichess is superior in every way, just that it…

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Aug 12, 2022, 6:59 AM UTC

TameAntelope wrote: post #132

fragmede wrote: post #65

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If we want to use sports analogies we don't have to use Nike and Adidas as stand-ins, golf is undergoing this right now, between the PGA and LIV tournaments, and members with exclusivity clauses in their contracts.

LIV has moral opposition. It'd be more like if Lichess were funded by Nazi gold or something, and the person funding it was trying to do so because they want you to forget they stole a ton of Nazi gold. PGA isn't behaving this way for moral reasons, but it's an extra component to that situation which makes this harder to analogize.