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The beauty of games and the dark side of gamification

Life Examined

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The Dice Roads

Moksha Pataem started as a religious teaching game in ancient India. It reminds me still of this, this crossover between what is a game and what is something like throwing a tarot card. And I think it comes down to our understanding of probability. So if the probability is quite a recent concept, so now we kind of look at dice as things that produce random numbers. For most of humanity's existence, it wasn't something that produced random numbers. There was some spiritual force or something that was deciding the outcome of those eyes. We still have it today. You know, people will play a gambling game and roll the dice and go, oh, the dice are against me

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