Live versus Dead Players

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AGENCY VS NPC What are the limits of agency? 1) Until five minutes ago, the West was run by NPCs. You slotted into your role, waited decades to be president, propped up the postwar order, established the establishment. 2) Now it's run by high agency people. You... See more

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A friend of mine recently asked me if I thought everything was systemic. I said I think that’s sort of right. Take systemic racism. I tend to think that while systemic racism exists, “progress” on questions of race is no less systemic. This is not how we like to talk about things in the United States. We imagine entrenched injustice that is righted... See more

Damian Marusic • Progress Without Heroes

i don't buy either extreme: programmers won't disappear, but it's disingenuous to think nothing will happen to them my world model is collapsing into a single bit: agency or no agency. that's the whole game anyone (not just devs) with extreme agency is now 100x. it's not fully positive sum... See more

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