georgestrakhov

Check out Valentino Braitenberg's vehicles. It's one of my favourite books ever.

yes, definitely some optimizations are due if you go beyond 20-30 moves or move fast. would love a PR on that if anyone cares!

Exactly this. Everything is a sport / art / status game. And I'm here for it! Lila all the way through. Finite and infinite games. The trick is (like it has always been) to not take the game or ourselves too seriously, while still engaging in the game wholeheartedly.

Per wikipedia: "The period of the European witch trials with the most active phase and the largest number of fatalities seems to have occurred between 1560 and 1630." Which is very pre-modern. And that's the language that was chosen in the essay, not the Medieval.

My argument is precisely that it will become mainstream. But as long as it's not all weird in the same way - I'm here for it.

Thank you!

Yes. But my argument is about what's the best strategy for the majority!

Oh shit this should have been the epigraph