Kelly Clancy > Quotes

“The game took weeks to play. During that time, all cats had to be banished from the house to prevent them from disrupting the game pieces.”
― Kelly Clancy, Playing with Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World

“I cannot accept that a theory of prime importance, which describes processes which everybody believes to be elementary, can be right if it is too complicated, i.e., if it describes these elementary processes as being horribly complex and sophisticated ones.”
― Kelly Clancy, Playing with Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World

“Jules Cardinal Mazarin, chief minister to Louis XIV, was accused of pushing gambling on the upper strata of society to keep the nobility in thrall, their minds happily occupied by matters other than subterfuge. Their growing gambling losses also kept them indebted to the king.”
― Kelly Clancy

“We need to be aware of the ways that the games encoded in our social and technological systems warp our preferences, manufacture our desires, contaminate our attitudes toward one another, and ultimately influence our life choices.”
― Kelly Clancy, Playing with Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World

“The maximizers are already here. Any consequences too subtle to measure—environmental costs, civic discord, troubled diplomatic relations—are simply omitted from the score.”
― Kelly Clancy, Playing with Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World

“The problem is not that a paper-clip-maximizing AI will arise in the future and turn the universe into paper clips. The maximizers are already here. Any consequences too subtle to measure--environmental costs, civic discord, troubled diplomatic relations--are simply omitted from the score.”
― Kelly Clancy, Playing with Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World