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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2/ if I added a 1% tincture of NRx kid "here's how we should restructure society" to my thoughts, I suppose I'd say "it'd be nice if we had a world where it was easier for kids to learn actual blacksmithing than waste 800 hours leveling up their WoW character in 'blacksmithing'"
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Replying to @MorlockP @orthonormalist
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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