Good tweets by @orthonormalist on the virtues of video games (tho regrettably unthreaded; you'll have to track them down yourself).
I tend to dislike video games as a memetic hazard / substitute for true achievement, but also understand that everyone needs relaxation and fun.https://twitter.com/orthonormalist/status/1174770699287678977 …
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3/ No! I entirely disagree! This is like me saying "we should give people opportunities to hike and camp so they won't turn to heroin" and you saying "yes! VR of hiking while using heroin! Exactly!" REEEEEEEEEEehttps://twitter.com/orthonormalist/status/1174772140416983040 …
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More simulators! Mass scale feedback in sim before irl, add achievements that link virtual with real.
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Yep. That's the 'memetic hazard*' right there. You feel like you've accomplished something, by just clicking a lot, in a certain sequence. There's a lot of 'push button get treat' going on here. *I may be using this wrong.
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EXACTLY we evolved in a world where we get small dopamine hits from real world accomplishments...and now live in a mine field where high quality hits at perfect addiction intervals compete w reality
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Here's the problem: I can't do actual blacksmithing. I am certainly capable of conceiving of solving problems and engaging with problems for various ends, but I can't blacksmith. Why is blacksmithing objectively better than any other problem-solving environment?
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didn't say it is just saying real blacksmithing > fake blacksmithing and real carpentry > fake carpentry and real cooking > fake cooking
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