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The irony of this question is that the OP is concerned about the maximum optimization of "intellectual potential" wasted by people that are seeking maximum opti
by fuball63 6y ago
The irony of this question is that the OP is concerned about the maximum optimization of "intellectual potential" wasted by people that are seeking maximum optimization of a game system.
There is more to life than a feverish march of scientific progress. There's value in wasted time, boredom, and frivolity.
Furthermore, I'm certain that current/historic systemic oppression of large swathes of humanity contributes more to "wasted intellectual potential of humanity". And in those cases, it is actually detrimental to the person, whereas a game is usually provides benefit to a person in happiness, relaxation, or challenge.
- kiba 6y agoI don't want to spend all my time being slave to productivity goals, yet there are things that worthwhile to work on according to my value. I would like to be efficient. There are time that I decided I don't want to work more in th evening and spend my time intentionally just watching youtube instead. That wasn't procrastination. A game like factorio, I would like to ideally spend maybe 3-4 hours per week. But if I spent like 10,000 hours cumulatively, that might be too much for me. If I spent way too much time on video games, that start to become procrastination.