games

“And I think what you're going to see is that there's a lot of work that's going to be done in games, but the goal is, of course, bring it out of the game, and actually use it to solve problems in the real world, and to actually, you know, be able to interact w…”

“Games aren't narrative vehicles in general, right? I mean, they're, I, there's a whole very nerdy set of ideas around games and narratology, which we're not going to get into”

“I think that VR experiences should not be following in the same footsteps of games in that regard, because holding a gun to someone's head is very different than holding a controller so that that character can hold a gun to someone's head. It's like once you a…”

“In the way that painting is about looking, right? It's the art form that is about looking. Games are the art form about thinking and doing, right? About our ability to have a goal and pursue that goal and accomplish it to solve problems to, you know, about cau…”

“That's my argument, is that they're more like paintings than they are like orgasm machines.”

“I think they are kind of an underappreciated little micro genre in, in games.”

“I see my theory about this is that you really can't invent a sport. You can invent games, and sometimes games can evolve into sports.”

“Because that's what happens when you play a game. You enter into this mind state where you're just... In dogged pursuit of this arbitrary goal. Like this goal is not like, there's no external reason you would want to make this number go up. In, in any clicker …”

“The way that they generate meaning, or beauty, or interest, or all the qualities that, that we want out of them is not just their ability to simulate something but the space between that simulation and the real thing.”

“It's awesome for games. I love it for games. I love it for other stuff, but for video, it's been sort of a head scratcher.”

“That all the leading foundation models are pretty poor at games, which is quite interesting.”