yesbutt11 · HackerTrans

6 years agodiscuss

You call out that they’re valuable learning tools and call them useless software.

I have a hard time accepting entirely cognitive items, even word processors are entirely cognitive objects, being seen as useless, full stop.

This smacks of a kind of cognitive functional fixedness. A thing without commonly accepted type of utility is valueless. Our minds must remain fixed on the concrete functionality.

Word processors are used to generate a lot of useless content too. Not every invention of high utility is limited to the cognitive use in that realm of utility.

Same with things commonly perceived to be of little utility.

In fact the willingness to spend money on them appears to be of immense utility.

The value of objects need not be left up to popular opinion.

yesbutt11

6 years agodiscuss

So games have a use as a forcing function on our agency that can be gamed.

Which means they’re not useless.

Trying to be concrete and objective about things that are entirely subjective cognitive ideas gets a little old.

I like creative mode games. They’re sensory fun, which is on the list.

Really, I think you and OP miss the point of games.

yesbutt11

6 years agodiscuss

Re: metamap being zero cost

I thought there were no zero cost abstractions in C++?

https://youtu.be/rHIkrotSwcc

Still, it isn’t RoR or anything JS so it has that going for it.

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