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If I thought I were an expert, I would be answering questions instead of asking questions.
That isn't an argument unless the best humans frequently play against computers. Do they?
A human could be better than a computer at beating another human. In a game with one computer and four humans, I can easily believe that one human might win more than the computer did.
In a game with four well-programmed computers and one human, I predict the computers will trounce the human regularly. I'm not an expert at poker; but I am an expert at computation, so I feel pretty confident about this prediction.
(A game with 3 well-programmed computers, one human, and one poorly-programmed computer would count as a game with 3 computers and 2 humans.)
"Well-programmed computer" sounds like "sufficiently smart compiler" to me :).