C. Thi Nguyen
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3,183 appearances
5 recordings
5 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 7 Jul
C. Thi Nguyen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Like just the basic question, was that fun?
Was that interesting?
Is it cued to be open to weird, hard to measure signals?
And then you use that to make a decision about whether you wanna play the game again, whether you wanna play a different game, whether you wanna modify that game.
And I think that,
As dumb as it might sound, I think that a life with games exemplifies a freedom and agency with respect to your values and activities.
What it is, and not every game is like this.
You can be pushed into bad games.
It's not automatic.
Is it a bad game or is it a game that's just not suited to you?
I mean, this is, I think...
Mostly I'm talking about games that are not suited to you.
There are probably some bad games.
I think like purpose-built addictive games are bad, but whatever.
I think you're right.
The thing that the social technology of games do when we experience them in the right context is they trigger reflection.
And they trigger reflection by participating in and then stepping back from extremely explicit systems.
They also let us leverage what's good about explicit systems, right?
The whole point of game rules and game goals is they capture kinds of activities.
That's what rock climbing is like for me.
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