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Topic: Philidor vs. Philidor
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I'd say you have too much FAITH in science. Even those you believe in evolution, btw, don't usually believe that it happens that quickly. This could quickly get too far from chess, so I'll leave it at that.
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lol, and as far as ratings on queen alice, though I love them dearly, I wouldn't take them to the bank. I know for a fact that I am around a 1600 rated player. This site has me rated between 2000-2150 most of the time, though it jumps around. Big, big, big difference.
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The scientific revolution preceded the twentieth century; empiricism, which forms the basis of this revolution, dates back to Philidor's days, although perhaps Steinitz deserves credit for bringing these ideas into chess theory. Objectivism, on the other hand, is the twentieth century political philosophy of Ayn Rand, and it has minimal relation to objectivity and less to science.
The belief that human evolution might be observed over several generations is a pernicious misunderstanding of natural selection, but formed the foundation of the Social Darwinism of Herbert W. Spencer and his disciples, including Francis Galton, the founder of Eugenics (a racist pseudo-science).
My rating here is based on a small number of games, and is ~600 higher than my USCF OTB, as well as ~400 higher than my USCF and IECC correspondence ratings. I play on one site where I have a higher rating, and more than a half-dozen where it is lower.
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But the Flynn effect has provent people get smarter as knowledge evolves, a medieval man injected into today's time period would not be able to adapt to our indivisualistic way of life, but would be wanting to go back to the collectivist society and caste system "decreed by god" that he was used to. We, on the other hand, in the past would be as gods.
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Placed back in the neolithic era, most modern humans would starve because we know too little of the plants, tool making, stalking, and elementary crop cultivation that was critical. Placed in the middle ages, we might survive because we have received vaccinations, but we would be deemed fools (and rightly so).
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