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So the humans play more robotically than the robots.

"The problem is not computers thinking like people, it's people thinking like computers."

(I think I read this quotation dated back to the 1960s or 70s, attributed to one of usual suspects of that time, but cannot find search results for it now ...)

“The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.“

— Sydney J. Harris As quoted, without citation, in Howard W. Eves, Return to Mathematical Circles, (1988), 63.

https://todayinsci.com/H/Harris_Sydney/HarrisSydney-Quotatio...

This ought to be permanently posted at the op of every HN thread.

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