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> 'what are humans still good for?' Enjoying playing chess.

• cLeEOGPw 11y ago
  Humans are still good at releasing chemicals that reward neural circuit and strengthen connections at a certain task. Process whose purpose is to slowly get better at that task. Wow, we really have an edge over a machine that is already better at the task and possibly getting better with every game without that particular reward mechanism you know as "enjoyment".
  • efferifick 11y ago
    Ha! Thanks for the chuckle. Yeah, I agree with you on the the fact that "enjoyment" can be seen as a tool evolved for improving our fitness function's scores. The only problem I see with this line of thought is that if we keep following it, we get into the absurd. "Why even play chess?", "Why even bother doing anything a computer is better at doing?", "What to do then?". And, this is my personal answer: do things because you enjoy them. I don't know if we will ever reach a point where a computer can decide if it wants to play chess, but I hope that if we do, then the computer chooses to play on the basis that it wants to play and not on the fact that it has to optimize some external parameter. (Although as I write this, I realize that "do things because you enjoy them" practically means maximizing your utility function.) Ok, you win. Haha. I just stopped enjoying analyzing this issue. :)