The machine is programmed with algorithms of human invention, is given all that is known of human strategy, primed with studies of decades of human competition, and this machine takes the credit?
Pah.
Cheers,
- Joel
Those castles were largely destroyed by the shoguns seeking to prevent any successful rebellion. Or did you really think that the clans were stupid enough to destroy something as awesomely valuable as a castle? ~Maru cc wrote: ....
It's also laughable because many of the lords changed sides on a near clockwork basis. Like chivalry, bushido was more a nostalgic belief than a real one, and was codified when the warrior period was waning- in fact it was pretty much dead
It would have been a waste to kill every samurai who was on the losing side, and it would also have been impossible, since some would get away. Some became ronin, selling themselves to the highest bidder. Some committed seppuku. Some even may have become yakuza. Other masterless samurai, especially in the waning days of the Tokugawa Shogunate, became artisans and traders. Some even became farmers. Romantic and sad as it might be to picture medieval Japan just plumb full of wandering samurai families whose lords had lost battles, it doesn't ring true. Were there lots of samurai who were put to death at the end of a battle? Heck, yes. At the end of the Warring States period, only about a dozen major families remained extant. I wouldn't want to live in the period of Warring States for anything. But every samurai who was originally on the losing side wasn't killed, and samurais didn't exist as a fully separate caste until the time of Toyatomi Hideyoshi, when everyone in Japanese society started to be locked into their social roles.
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