JD Pressman: rigorously reverse-engineering fun might have changed AI debates
jd_pressman · x · 2026-11-11
Continuing his critique that "governance is solved" is a children's fantasy, JD Pressman argues that if people had tried to seriously reverse-engineer the nature of fun, satisfaction and enjoyment — e.g. putting game design on rigorous neurological foundations — things might have turned out differently.
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