{"id":4658,"date":"2025-06-08T10:53:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T10:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davesali.wordpress.com\/?p=4658"},"modified":"2025-06-08T10:53:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T10:53:33","slug":"a-million-year-chess-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/08\/a-million-year-chess-game\/","title":{"rendered":"A million year chess game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Proverbs 8:22 KJV \u2014 The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Imagine a beginner playing a game of chess against a chess grandmaster. All things being equal, who do you think would win?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, imagine the same scenario with one key difference. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The beginner has the power to pause time and spend a million years trying out every possibility, talking to other people, getting advice, using AI devices, playing entire games through to their conclusion&#8230;and then unpause time and come back to make their next move. And he gets to do this on every move throughout the entire game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A million years per move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Proverbs 8 we see that God was thinking through every aspect of creation for millions, billions, quadrillions of years&#8230;before He opened His mouth and said &#8220;Light, be.&#8221; (Genesis 1:2)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">God has thought through every single permutation of everything that can happen. He&#8217;s not just thought about it, but He&#8217;s used wisdom and understanding in the way He thought about everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So when He says something that seems &#8220;simple&#8221; or &#8220;silly&#8221; to you&#8230;pay attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">God has thought this thing out way more than you, or I ever will.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And He loves us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So whatever He says to you, do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proverbs 8:22 KJV \u2014 The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. Imagine a beginner playing a game of chess against a chess grandmaster. All things being equal, who do you think would win? Now, imagine the same scenario with one key difference. The beginner has the power &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/08\/a-million-year-chess-game\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A million year chess game&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5890,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4658\/revisions\/5890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}