Thorin Kafka’s Reviews > Playing with Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World > Status Update

African philosophy Ubuntu “I am because we are”; Bernard Suits book “The Grasshopper; games can model utopia but they can also temper dystopia; lots of good stuff here

Very good chapter on game theory and why it’s shaped common sense negatively through poor understanding and application of its outdated principles.

Very interesting, though at times I feel like I’m losing the authors voice. A lot of fascinating stuff in here. The MENACE model for artificial learning was an interesting read, and Von Neumann’s work in game theory being a partial expression of trying to find order in the chaos of WW2 is fascinating.