Historically, game-playing was a kind of Darwinian survival technique, teaching humans how to calculate probabilities and strategy. Now they are popular for different reasons, most obviously their ability to satisfy our deep psychological desires “to solve an elegant problem,”
At their best games provide a sense of control and agency in an often-chaotic world.
Oliver Roeder
The FT’s senior data journalist in the US.
https://www.ft.com/content/4bab3a03-1c91-4b4a-a6d1-5298ccd991ee
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