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http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23592 The conclusion mentions Poker over Chess. His last sentence's ''the advanced lifestyles we enjoy,'' as if tantamount to everybody's goal, shows his preoccupation with economics. If ecologies and weathers crash under population pressures, ways of life have to decline with all the other species in the already well under way sixth mass extinction, the first since long ago dinosaurs, caused by worldwide consumerism that Kasparov does cite objectionably. Also out of just Kasparov's last paragraph or two is, how can CVs incorporate more Poker-like variables to buy time? Resignation? It is not unheard of for Computers to be deliberately reined in such as field of surveillance. Although the Butlerian Jihad, Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man, is totally wiped out now. 'Dune': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Catholic_Bible.