There is greater satisfaction in playing a "game" evolved through generations of nonconsensual struggle than one designed by people
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Replying to @BagelDaughter
This occurred to me while riding my kick scooter through the challenging, uneven streets of Harvard Square to get to work this morning
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It was physically challenging to maneuver safely. Messing up bore the risk of minor injury or not making it to work on time
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Those stakes cannot be reproduced in a "game" without introducing a large "arbitrariness/artificiality" penalty
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future games use hypnosis, drugs, brain-machine interfaces, &c., to make you think the stakes are real
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Replying to @Grognor
Perhaps they create or bootstrap new, "artificial"-yet-consequential stakes a la bitcoin
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