Re: Quit Shopping For Fun

Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> writes:

On 2024-05-19, Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:
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But here's a contribution that may or may not be listed there:
Spinglasses: The game
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    https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.1839

 
I took a peek at the Spinglas PDF and it looks cool, thanks!

I happened on it because Stuart Kauffman's book, The Origins of Order,
mentions that his NK model of complexity is very similar to spin-glass
models in statistical physics.  Groveling around the web to find out
what a spin-glass was, I happened on the game.  I've never made up the
pieces and played it.  But I'm intrigued that you can make a game
from the underlying concepts.

Here's The Glass Plate Game.  It was inspired by Herman Hesse's
book The Glass Bead Game.  I had the good fortune to play GPG at
Oregon State University with Dunbar Aitkins and several students.
 
"The object of playing the game is to spark creative and interesting
conversation between the players. Nobody wins."
 
https://glassplategame.com/

From the game-play description:

      Writing ideas on cards is openended but no opinions are allowed;
      no cards may have a question of truth or falseness. Personal
      statements are to be made only by relating ideas. Still, a
      theory is not an opinion. Thus the idea "cars as a vile public
      nuisance" is acceptable whereas "cars are a vile public
      nuisance" is not.

Wow.  That calls for disciplined thinking on the fly.  Many people
don't routinely make a conscious distinction between theory,
knowledge, opinion or even "what I saw in passing on social media last
week".

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Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada