I listened to the Voulgaris interview you tweeted (fascinating in many ways). At one point he talks about the soccer team he owns and the radical inclusion of probabilistic analysis and so on. He mentions there being a “culture war” and pushback against his approach - players can no longer be confident in their intuitions and have to submit to a top-down hyper-rational approach. Some say he is ruining the game, and to this he seems to shrug, “maybe I am”.
This connects to what I see as very real concerns: - the tendency to treat our lives as something to be optimized, to see ourselves as capital stock that must not lie fallow but be constantly invested for profit, to accept externally imposed values/price-tags rather than thinking and living for ourselves.
Reading your synposis it seems you might be touching on this kind of theme. Do you see a danger in the humans-as-rational-machine metaphor, and the role game design might have in reinforcing the issues I mention?
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Hi Frank,
I listened to the Voulgaris interview you tweeted (fascinating in many ways). At one point he talks about the soccer team he owns and the radical inclusion of probabilistic analysis and so on. He mentions there being a “culture war” and pushback against his approach - players can no longer be confident in their intuitions and have to submit to a top-down hyper-rational approach. Some say he is ruining the game, and to this he seems to shrug, “maybe I am”.
This connects to what I see as very real concerns: - the tendency to treat our lives as something to be optimized, to see ourselves as capital stock that must not lie fallow but be constantly invested for profit, to accept externally imposed values/price-tags rather than thinking and living for ourselves.
Reading your synposis it seems you might be touching on this kind of theme. Do you see a danger in the humans-as-rational-machine metaphor, and the role game design might have in reinforcing the issues I mention?
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