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Re:AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol 3-0 [video] by mike_hearn on Saturday March 12, 2016 @07:17AM (#11272551)
That's sort of like saying civilisation can't work because humans will want to make as much money as possible. No, in practice humans tend to want to make as much money as possible within lots of other very complex constraints, like law, morality, how much time they have available, how enjoyable the available processes of making money are, whether they feel they already have sufficient money for their own needs, etc.
Re:AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol 3-0 [video] by pixl97 on Saturday March 12, 2016 @08:27PM (#11275675)
>within lots of other very complex constraints, like law, morality, how much time they have available

Ha, if that were true we wouldn't be constantly extending the law and putting people in jail because they keep breaking the law for profit.

>ivilisation can't work because humans will want to make as much money as possible

And yet we keep running into issues with long term pollution and environmental degradation because of the growth of civilization.

>whether they feel they already have sufficient money for their own needs,

Does greed have bounds?