RE: [ba-poker] Botsxyxy

[Andy Latto <Andy.Latto(deleted the rest)>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Prock [mailto:prock(deleted the rest)]
> Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 6:26 PM
> To: Andy Latto
> Cc: ba-poker(deleted the rest)
> Subject: Re: [ba-poker] Botsxyxy
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> On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Andy Latto wrote:
> > I'm confused; I think we're in exactly that situation.
> 
> Well, we aren't.

I think you're quoting me out of context here. I think
we're in the situation where *if* someone could write
a bot that was a winning player in online money games,
they could easily arrange to have 1000 such bots playing
24 hours a day, and this would have a major effect on
the ecology of online poker. If you disagree, I'd
be interested in seeing a more detailed argument than
"Well, we aren't", which I don't find especially persuasive.

> 
> And despite the fact that we *could* have a moon colony.
> 
> We don't.

Building a moon colony would cost billions, if not trillions,
and take thousands of man-years of effort. Once good bot code
is written, building a farm of machines that play this bot online
would take a few man-months of effort, and would cost under $100K

of computers that ran a bot code
> 
> Let's not confuse the possible with actual reality.

The question under discussion is

"> Is it only a matter of time before online play is ruined by bots?"

So it seems reasonable to consider not only what is available today,
but what can be easily built, particularly if it's something that
would be profitable to build.

                                Andy