Episode 248: Checkmate, Grasshopper
Very Bad Wizards
The Universe of Chess
Micheal Hixon: I was curious about how many things that we would consider games fit into this ontological razor. He says chess is not physics either because chess is not about anything it represents nothing beyond itself except perhaps metaphorically you might say between the worlds of heaven and earthbetween mathematics and physics as steven zweig passionately remarks in the chess story. "It's like it's platonism at that point you know and i'm down for that fuck it good job uh michael hixon"
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