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Originally Posted by Stupor
Hi again, I fixed your SPOILER above.
you seem to think utility is about whether you happen to think something is ok or acceptable but it is a more defined concept than that
yes of course televised poker also provides entertainment, so those guys getting paid for that if other people want to watch is all good. an amateur golfer isn't a career. if he makes it to the pros then fine he'll provide entertainment and earn a living, if not, he'll do something else. the point of the post you originally replied to was about the butthurt grinder who felt it was unfair that it was more difficult for him to win money from other poker players while providing zero utility to society.
and your business example isn't correct. businesses exist to provide goods and services (which must have utility) to consumers who choose to pay for them. no utility, no customers, no business
Businesses exist to make $$, successful ones have found which goods & service(utility) is profitable then exploiting it. When Orginizations are worried about getting goods & services to people without $$ they call it charity.
my utility to other poker players is I bring an unknown dynamic that they can test their poker knowledge agains't. With poker we have a way to measure SKILLS with the fellow human, which I think is more important than most of the "utility" in the world. The score just happens to be kept in $$.
yeah we definitely veered of GTO/AI topic, so heres some AI
"Google is beating hospitals at their own game — at least when it comes to death risk assessment. Google’s Medical Brain team has begun training its artificial intelligence system to evaluate the risk of death among hospital patients, and results for the time being are more accurate than those provided by existing medical tools." (copied)
"Google first detailed its new system in a paper published in the Journal Nature in May. At the time, company researchers noted, “These models outperformed traditional, clinically used predictive models in all cases. We believe that this approach can be used to create accurate and scaleable predictions for a variety of clinical scenarios.”" (copied)
Google's algorithms are matching doctors abilities and AI will be threatening their jobs and countless other jobs in the near future.
So to think poker will be profitable against AI is a mere pipe dream.