Games, a universal in human societies, might have emerged as a framework for building mental models of one another. They may have been preserved and elaborated across generations thanks to their benefits in teaching people how to reason about one another. Players must understand the beliefs and preferences of other players to secure the best

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Purports to be an oral history of the development of SimCity. In reality it's about cybernetics, fire control systems, cellular automata, Vannebar Bush, the nature of cognition, system dynamics, World3, pedagogy, and artificial life. Borgesian. https://t.co/zPO5ICQPoT