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46: Reconsidering Civilization with Soren Johnson (Old World)

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

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Civ 4: A Multiplayer Game

In Civ 4, the AI was still kind of very much in the mode of like, okay, this is a replacement for the human. But with off world, we had a few ideas that were kind of like with these weird curve balls where I was aware that the humans would never really be able to accept the AI handling these rules well. The thing is I totally do not believe that people would ever, and it doesn't matter how I wrote the AI for it, right? Like if you have a space elevator and you hologram it to something else and the AI comes and dynamites it, the humans just will not believe that the AI played fairly or whatnot. It's like

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