I love that blog. Arnold Kling is spot on when he writes about entrepreneurship. Bryan Caplan is as close to a sane anarcho-capitalist as you can come. At CMU'

I love that blog. Arnold Kling is spot on when he writes about entrepreneurship. Bryan Caplan is as close to a sane anarcho-capitalist as you can come. At CMU's Robotics Institute a few years ago, a friend made a poker bot that was pretty good. It was for a machine learning class -- but it used a lot of standard techniques like constraints and search. Another guy made a parser to take the screen from a popular online poker system, and input the state into any software you want. The final step -- to automatically make moves and plug-in a simple chat-bot to counter accusations of non-humanity, was not done by them. I am 100% certain it has been done many, many times. Of course, why would you hear about it in the news?