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How could one design economically productive outputs from a video game like playing experience? Thinking something like Ender's game meets Uber drivers...

• sevenless 10y ago
  Already happening: WoW gold farmers.
  • obmelvin 10y ago
    He obviously means something that is productive to the real world
    • sevenless 10y ago
      Why? Video game economies are already bigger than many real world nations. If enough of us live in the video game world, game labor has value.
• gliese1337 10y ago
  Protein folding games. Path finding. Image recognition and other dataset-labelling tasks that can be used to train better AI models. Natural language translation. Duolingo doesn't look much like a typical video game, but it does have gamifying elements.