Author: Nicklas Berild Lundblad
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One of the areas I want to explore more in the coming weeks is automated science over all — the idea that we could automate science, the entire process and perhaps the institution is both exciting and somewhat worrying. These are some preliminary thoughts – written down mostly to map…
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This article from New Scientist was interesting. The idea that you can use AI to study old board games and infer possible rule sets, and so also maybe start to look at the genealogy of games overall – what some call the ludeme – is fascinating. All games are but…
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Lately I have run into the concept of incremental writing, and I quite like it — the idea that there are ways to write a little to write a lot. Well, duh – I know this is not new, but at least I tend to forget this and think that…
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I just finished a course in the philosophy of games at Umeå university, and it was quite excellent. The course involved a lot of writing and I had opportunity to write two different long(er) essays that I quite liked. I am including links to them here if anyone is interested.…
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If we assume that games have evolved for some function, that they have some practical use to play (as per Ruth Millikan on concepts in general), we can think about the ability to cast the world in a game as a special kind of skills or capability, and as for…
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Here is a simple test to apply to any project that you are asked to participate in, or that is proposed for your review: ask what the difference will be in two years time if we engage in this project and then ask what will happen if we do not…
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Can you become better at guessing? At a first glance the answer may seem an obvious yes – some people guess badly, others better – but exactly how would you go about that? What are the subskills that make you a better guesser, and can you practice them in some…
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Here a few notes on a question that I think would be worthwhile to explore more in detail in an essay — these are just my first notes. In Narayanamurti’s and Tsao’s excellent book on how to nurture research – The genesis of technoscientific revolutions: rethinking the nature and nurture…
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A key problem in public policy work is to articulate the case for intervening and for engaging in an issue – and this is mirrored by how challenging it is to actually report on and measure impact. A classical failure mode is the policy team working hard to get a…
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Imagine a world in which your resume was the kinds of questions you are better at asking than most other people? If your skills were translated to the kinds of questions where you excel and really make a difference in a team? And if we then also decided to recruit…