Games/Sports

Games/Sports Archive

169 | C. Thi Nguyen on Games, Art, Values, and Agency

3 Comments / Games/Sports, Philosophy / October 18, 2021

Games are everywhere, but why exactly do we play them? It seems counterintuitive, to artificially invent goals and obstacles just

Games/Sports / March 15, 2021

You might think that human beings, exhausted by competing for resources and rewards in the real world, would take it

4 Comments / Games/Sports, Psychology / June 22, 2020

The best chess and Go players in the world aren’t human beings any more; they’re artificially-intelligent computer programs. But the

5 Comments / Design, Games/Sports / June 24, 2019

Games play an important, and arguably increasing, role in human life. We play games on our computers and our phones,

5 Comments / Games/Sports, Math, Thinking / July 23, 2018

Poker, like life, is a game of incomplete information. To do well in such a game, we have to think

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