This website is very opinion-based, unfortunately. It could be used by researchers in the field to share interesting ideas, instead, I constantly see trolls and amateurs asking/answering "stupid" questions, if you believe there are stupid questions.
@Jaden Travnik great link to recent poker results. You may be interested in Thomas S. Ferguson's early work on Poker, which brought it into the realm of Combinatorial Game Theory.
@nbro we could definitely use more mathematics on this Stack, but I'm not opposed to "noob" questions because the philosophical questions are important. (I mean this in a strictly mathematical, game theoretic context;)
As I see it, history is economic (causal) and narrative (interpretive), which for me, as a engineer, involves mathematical decision-making (Game Theory) and grappling with meaning (such as in NLP)
Which is to say the field of Algorithmic Intelligence involves both natural philosophy (hard science and mathematics) and metaphysics (philosophy and logic)
@nbro another point to consider is that while you may be academy trained in mathematics, this field does not necessarily require such a background. It was recently pointed out that one does not need the hard math to utilize these techniques, and Stack is a forum both for academy trained computer scientists AND hackers. Thus not everyone on this forum is going for a Nobel Prize, many of them just want to make simple chatbots
In my own endeavor, I'm more interested in the kid who can figure out how to build that strong tic-tac-toe AI with no schooling, because it indicates a type of creativity that may be useful in tackling non-trivial, and even wildly intractable problems, which are the central concern of this field.
There is also a counter argument about the elitism of the academy, and the unwillingness of certain scholars and mathematicians to engage with those outside their field, possibly considering that to be beneath them, and not worth their time. Thus the rare "public scholars" are loved because they are willing to engage with anyone, at any level of learning, purely out of passion for the subject.
John Carmack is an example of an absolute badass, top of his field, and almost entirely self taught.
I'm not "against" what you're saying, but, IMHO, there are too many "philosophical" questions and answers in this website compared to what, I think, is actually necessary, where many of them are very related to each other and very broad, which doesn't lead to any progress. Everyone can give a guess, but not everyone can carry a logical reasoning from mathematical models.
