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a bit off topic but i'm a bit surprised by all the comments on this thread dismissing human feelings and emotions as something reductible to their biochemicals
by bsaul 12y ago
a bit off topic but i'm a bit surprised by all the comments on this thread dismissing human feelings and emotions as something reductible to their biochemicals components.
Games and many other human activities are social activities.Only analysing them the way you would analyse a stone falling on the ground is just silly. you're missing a big chunk of the reasons the phenomenon is taking place in the first place.
- wfo 12y agoThe fact that this position is not even discussed but taken as an obviously true first premise by so many people in tech/engineering is rather troubling; I think it is the root cause of many very dysfunctional worldviews/failures to comprehend essential parts of life: over-application of economic thinking in all areas of discourse, libertarianism, stress upon efficiency at all costs in all cases, dismissal of the humanities, art, etc. It is all driven from a simpler and more fundamental notion, that sometimes people who work on computers all day can begin to believe humans and computers are identical; a human that doesn't consistently optimize its actions with respect to certain metrics is just buggy/poorly executed software, hence, the poor deserve to be poor, action without potential utility gain/profit is wasted and valueless, etc.