Video games
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On Gabrielle Zevin’s ‘Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow’ and video games as art.
For better & for ill, games can welcome us into another world and show us the choices we would make.
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On ‘Among Us’ and parenting.
I found the imposters! But I love them too much to vote them off the ship.
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On ‘Among Us’ and honesty.
How is ‘Among Us’ like ‘The Art of Seduction’? They’ll help you learn to get what you want. But I doubt I’ll play again.
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On empathizing with machines.
With sufficient power to pursue its goals, an AI might destroy the world. But then, we’d probably do it too.
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On prayer, diversity among deities, and ADHD.
Throughout the ages, humans have worshiped a wide variety of gods — tricksters, schemers, bullies, lovers — and could celebrate those same traits in themselves.
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On inadvertent racism.
Just because you didn’t realize your actions were unkind doesn’t excuse you from blame. I’m still teaching my 2 year old this, but the Supreme Court should know better.
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On the historical interpretations deathmatch: Sid Meier’s ‘Civilization 2’ versus Yuval Noah Harari’s ‘Sapiens.’
How do you pick the all-time list of video games? And what does the list tell us about humanity?
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On videogames and moral complicity.
Given that there are critical theory courses discussing Super Mario Brothers, I assume there’s no need to get into the whole “Can videogames be great art?” argument. Presumably almost everyone agrees that the medium can be used to make art. Honestly, I fall into the camp that believes that almost any medium could be used…
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On evolution and League of Legends.
Okay, here’s something that I feel like the Cosmos show did nicely – when they showed a tree representing evolutionary lineage, humans were on a branch jutting out seemingly at random to the side. Whereas many popular science presentations of evolution depict humans as the pinnacle – we’re here at the top, and if you…
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