Comment by Animats

> It does appear to help if, while pointing your wand and utter the magical incantation “do it up bro”, you also make it convert $15 million into heat, but for most people, this kind of inverted Midas touch isn't quite accessible yet.

That's like where chess was when Deep Blue was built by IBM. Productivity improved. There was someone complaining on here recently that the seat-back entertainment system on some airline had a chess program set to "trounce all humans".