[deep_etcetera]

I doubt a human could learn to become even remotely competitive with only self-play within a human lifetime. Go has improved via a distributed effort, so we should try to estimate the number of go games played by humanity (as an upper bound).

[est31]

Good point. I guess this ability to condense knowledge into language and pass it on has brought us where we are today. Genetically, we aren't that different from cavemen who lived tens of thousands of years ago.