User:Issa Rice/Gamification table: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 15:22, 4 January 2022

Property/attribute	MMBN	Math/AI safety	Vimscript/vimrc
addicting/feeling of being engrossed	yes	no	yes
important	no	yes	no
instant feedback	yes	no	yes
collecting things	yes	?	?
mentally easy	yes	no	most of the time
livelihood could depend on it	no	yes	no
multiple threads that can be pursued	yes	yes	yes
social competition	no	yes	no
early on, you are told the point of the thing you're doing	yes	no	yes
varied repetitiveness (i.e. not grinding)	yes	no	no
dominance reasoning/upgrades	yes^{[notes 1]}	no	yes
randomness/surprise	yes	no	no
pre-made dependency tree	yes^{[notes 2]}	no	no
tacit linearity	yes	no?^{[notes 3]}	no
large class from which to pull strategies	no	yes	yes?
tinkering mechanics	yes	no	yes
pressure to keep doing better/find flaws in what I am doing	no	yes^{[notes 4]}	no

↑ There's a bunch of "deterministic decisions" like "this new chip is a strictly better version of this other chip I've been using, so I should replace it".
↑ See "Games help players make and adapt plans" [1] for kind of thing I mean here. In a game like MMBN the next thing to do is basically obvious.
↑ not for mathematics as a whole, but a single textbook does have linear structure
↑ this is more of an AI safety thing, not a math thing

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 | varied repetitiveness (i.e. not [[wikipedia:Grinding (video gaming)|grinding]]) || yes || no || no
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-| dominance reasoning/upgrades || yes || no || yes
+| dominance reasoning/upgrades || yes<ref group=notes>There's a bunch of "deterministic decisions" like "this new chip is a strictly better version of this other chip I've been using, so I should replace it".</ref> || no || yes
 |-
 | randomness/surprise || yes || no || no