You are avoiding the issue here. If your method of comparing winners and losers leads to the conclusion that almost all have been losers, and almost none (statistically speaking, another scientific method we use) is a winner, then your method is logically flawed.
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I can't see why is it flawed. There's usually one winner (or a small group) at the end of the game. If everyone will be a winner, what a game it would be?
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As a proper analogy, you would have to imagine a game played by 10,000 people, and in the end, only 1 is the winner, and all 9,999 are literall called losers. Yes such method is logically flawed.
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But that's how games work. Olympics, for example. Yeah, there are these cooperative win/win games, but evolution is not of that kind, I'm afraid.
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Please stop. Find one game with 10,000 players, where 9,999 are labeled losers, one labeled winner. You correctly brought up the gene narrative, a cornerstone of the theory of evolution, and I pointed out for this very reason, evolution is not about winners and losers.
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Every game in Olympics. You have hundreds of athletes that compete in national championships, then 1 or some more go to Olympics, then one of these thousands win.
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Please, show me one game with 10,000 participants, where 9,999 will be declared losers, and one declared winner. Stop fooling around.
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Chess, if you don't like Olympics. There are millions of chess players and Magnus Carlsen is reigning world champion. He is the winner.
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Yet thousands and thousands of other players are also called winners. Please stop.
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Yeah, but look at this other way: you can certainly name those who lose at chess. They are losers. And those who are not losers - they are winners. Intermediate winners. That's just how I look at this.
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If you want to continue the mental gymnastics, and we know AI can beat any human chess player, what conclusion will you have to be forced to draw?
That's complicated. AI doesn't have that genetic lust for life and will to survive at any cost. Because it doesn't have our physical genes. And that gives me a slight hope that humanity won't be wiped out soon.
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