A Philosophy of Games That Is Really a Philosophy of Life
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A Philosophy of Games That Is Really a Philosophy of Life
Games—whether they're sports, board games, video games, or party games—necessarily simplify values and goals, providing the structure for play. In playing a game, we temporarily take on those values and goals for the pleasure of the experience.66
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EZRA KLEIN: What might be true is if you spend all your time in point-scoring environments, you will become used to life being about scoring points. And you will begin to adopt that approach and begin to adopt those values without even realizing it. You’ll become habituated. The game will change you. That is a second principle I want to put ou... See more
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0.1% Ideas: Turning Life Into A Video Game
What idea do you think is true AND underpriced?
Here’s mine: The most productive people design life like a video game.
I had this red pill moment when I saw the following:
The laziest person I’ve ever met play a video game for 16 hours straight, 7 days per week.
My brain began to hurt: The laziest person I k... See more
What idea do you think is true AND underpriced?
Here’s mine: The most productive people design life like a video game.
I had this red pill moment when I saw the following:
The laziest person I’ve ever met play a video game for 16 hours straight, 7 days per week.
My brain began to hurt: The laziest person I k... See more
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Stated another way, freedom to win is freedom to get smarter in the sense of a given finite game.
Freedom in a finite-game sense is always freedom-to-win (and therefore, freedom to stop playing at some point). That’s the conclusion Sam arrived at two weeks ago. You graduate and level up to a qualitatively different finite game; one that requires you... See more
Freedom in a finite-game sense is always freedom-to-win (and therefore, freedom to stop playing at some point). That’s the conclusion Sam arrived at two weeks ago. You graduate and level up to a qualitatively different finite game; one that requires you... See more