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🎲 A Philosophy of Games (That Is Really a Philosophy of Life)
A rich, accessible conversation with philosopher C. Thi Nguyen on games and personal agency. Games have embedded value systems — they tell us what matters by rewarding it, and Nguyen thinks the simplicity of letting the game tell us what matters is a large part of what makes them fun. In r
A rich, accessible conversation with philosopher C. Thi Nguyen on games and personal agency. Games have embedded value systems — they tell us what matters by rewarding it, and Nguyen thinks the simplicity of letting the game tell us what matters is a large part of what makes them fun. In real life, metrics serve a similar function: they take all the intangible, tacit understanding of what makes something worthwhile and strip it back to a simple number legible to whoever's in charge. That, Nguyen argues, is a game that plays us. (🙏 Isabel T)
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