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Is Chess A Waste Of Time?

@ebk1976 said in #10:
> Very helpful article! Still, doesn't say exactly if it is or isn't a waste of time-I guess cause it's different for every person.

Chess itself might be a waste of time, but reading this article certainly didn't feel like one.
From a capitalist perspective, anything that doesn't earn money is a waste of time, and anything that does earn money is not.

In the /bitcoin /A.I. /genetic engineering economy, anyone who produces high quality information earns money, and anyone who does not struggles. So the question i guess is: is chess high quality information or not?
For a second I saw emporas' command and imagined GPT had some role in writing this article. Then re-reading the article, I realized that doesn't make sense. :-)
If you enjoy doing something, then it's not waste of time. It's quite the opposite.
This is something I myself have struggled with, I wish I had put the time of chess into something more productive like programming. But it is what it is.
@Toadofsky Indeed this article was written by a living human entity.

In automated statistical methods, i.e. artificial intelligence, we have already created text->image, text->music, text->legal document, text->novel etc. How about creating chess game->music? Then it might be profitable to play chess, and economically viable. Or maybe chess game->novel.