27th March 2006, 9:37 PM
That's a healthy attititude to have. I will only add that I don't like the attitude of "well, it couldn't hurt". Flapping my arms and clucking like a chicken couldn't hurt, but I'm not going to waste the effort on it even if it's the only thing I haven't tried to cure my brain cancer. Worse, wasting effort on a quack treatment just weakens one's ability to think critically, and also let's not forget the money spent on it. This has evidence in it's favor though. Also, from what I'm hearing, it's not really a game as such.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)