“Life is a game. Since we inhabit a world of limited resour­ces, our daily lives are full of zero-sum interactions where one party walks away with a prize while ano­ther leaves the table empty-handed; games with winners and losers. If you and I want the same spouse, the game is

“Yet, many of us frequently fall victim to what I call “game denial”: the inability to perceive, or a negligence of, the logical and behavioral rules that regulate human relations. Game denial is when you ignore or “wish away” certain uncomfortable truths regarding human

“Crimes agai­nst act­uality are crimes against humanity, against all life on our planet. Since game denial often “sounds nice”, it may be more convenient to def­end in a pub­lic debate (because you can easily take the moral high gro­und), but in actual reality, in a given con

“Game denial means to hate the game and try to eradicate it. It can take the form of liberal political correctness or, in its extreme form, crude comm­un­ism. But the game won’t go away. You can’t eradicate it with a “let’s all be friends”.” “The first victim of game denial is

Full article by Hanzi Freinacht: https://metamoderna.org/game-d... (6/6)

@AnnaLeptikon Top-notch post

@ItIsHoeMath Thank you! Enjoy yours greatly.

@AnnaLeptikon A major point of civilization is to reduce the zero sum game elements and increase cooperation Your explanation sounds like prisoners dilemma without the cooperative option 🤷 A huge part of the "game," is knowing when to cooperate and when to compete 🤨

@SH2F088 Maybe read Freinacht’s work on game acceptance and game change, too

@AnnaLeptikon do you consider infinite games (Carse) within the game denial category?

@regencrypto From his standpoint the games mentioned here are probably finite games and “infinite games” are what Freinacht would consider “game change”

@AnnaLeptikon You can't lose if you don't try. AI will soon think for us. Problem solved?

@pfitzart You cannot be serious.

@AnnaLeptikon Interesting. I wonder if every social policy is game denial. Does cooperating or every cooperative behaviour belong to game denial?

@Maze_s_Center No, read his work on game acceptance and game change as well.

@AnnaLeptikon Right wingers tend to incorrectly believe every interaction is a zero-sum game

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@AnnaLeptikon Very based. Have my sub.

@AnnaLeptikon By this logic outlawing murder and theft is game denial

@AnnaLeptikon Thank you for sharing this. I read all the three articles and can see how he moderates his idea of game denial and game acceptance and then takes an Aristotelian synthesis on actuality/potentiality in the game changer article.

@AnnaLeptikon > Yet pure “game acceptance” is equally wrong, of course. Valid points but this needs more attention! US culture suffers from "pure game acceptance" more than game denial

@AnnaLeptikon And... Jesus was referring to this dilemma when he recommended the game theory approach of "turn the other cheek." and "Sheath your sword, Brother Peter" (In game theory, we all have the choice to cooperate or cheat. Goes like this: 100 ppl, tournament, everyone plays 99

@AnnaLeptikon Too many people are scared to admit scarcity. Scarcity mindset is such a negative term. But scarcity is ever present. Only so many people can live well and it’s a question of who, both at an individual level and a group level.

@AnnaLeptikon "Money" is supposed to be the ledger of how much you owe the world, and how much the world owes you. Among other things, handouts and freebies, especially those issued and enforced by government diktat, coerce and twist and corrupt this ideal. (As we now know quite well.)

@AnnaLeptikon How about players who DON’T PLAY BY THE RULES OF THE GAME? See https://x.com/antelopehill/sta...

@AnnaLeptikon This is so Austist/socio. I get it, but I like a world where emotions and feelings are currency as well. That's the real battle going on.

@AnnaLeptikon Every cell in our body is competing for resources, that’s the game we’ve been playing since the dawn of history. But we’ve also learned to cooperate: sharing resources for common goals, manipulating each other through religion, politics, and other forms of deception.

@AnnaLeptikon if you learn calculus does someone somewhere lose the ability to do it? if someone plants a tree do they take your shade away? if two people laugh at the same joke is the joy somehow halved between them?

@AnnaLeptikon I also love how all the responses to this are the very phenomenon of game denial, lol.

@AnnaLeptikon people think they're so deep when they discover moloch and use it to justify their anxiety with it

@AnnaLeptikon This assumes that life is a zero sum game. It isn't. Logic allows us to be above such simplistic racionalizations. Cooperation is a better strategy than competition, always

@AnnaLeptikon Seems important to remember that many aspects of the modern game may contain competitions for higher rewards, but are still positive-sum. These are not mutually exclusive.