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by wrinkl3 1655 days ago
> Humans have been playing games literally for thousands of years - there is a value in entertainment, especially with our busy lives of 21st century.

Who gets to decide that? You see value in entertainment derived from a gaming rig, a person in Argentina sees value in mining a unit of make-believe currency which they can then sell on a speculative market. Should we form a global committee to decide on which types of computation have value, and should therefore be allowed to execute?

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Having a committee decide what’s allowed is generally how law is made, and the need for such committees is that what’s good for any individual is often different for what’s good for groups of people even though the latter contains the former (tragedy of the commons, prisoner’s dilemma) so: yes.