What is the incentive to run faster, when a car can drive faster, or build strength when a tractor can lift more?
What is the incentive to do any artistic endeavor, if you are not planning on being one of the world's best pianists, or painters, or singers, or furniture-makers?
Go was probably already solved by some distant species on a planet far away. Did that make it any less enjoyable for us to play? What's the difference?
If I do it to make a living, that’s one thing.
If I do it to be “the best,” that’s another thing.
If I do it for the pleasure of learning to do a thing, that’s a third thing.
It’s the same with games, but the emphasis on winning skews the culture towards wanting to be “the best.” But for those following the third path, AI beating humans changes nothing for them, just as synth bass and sequencing changes nothing for me.
What is the incentive to do any artistic endeavor, if you are not planning on being one of the world's best pianists, or painters, or singers, or furniture-makers?
Go was probably already solved by some distant species on a planet far away. Did that make it any less enjoyable for us to play? What's the difference?