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#003 with Frank Lantz

This week Frank Lantz – game designer, director of NYU’s Game Center, founder of Area/Code Games and the soon to be launched Hello Planet – joins us to talk about the role of art for progress (or contra-progress!), the possibility space of limitation, metarationality, and a mysterious Zone-find of his own, which he actually possesses…

Alien Crash Site · Santa Fe Institute, Caitlin McShea, Frank Lantz

December 2, 20201h 3m

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Show Notes

Learn more about everything referenced in this episode by clicking the links below:

2019 InterPlanetary Festival’s “Game Design Panel,” moderated by Frank

InterPlanetary Transmissions. Volume 2: Stardust, featuring an introduction to the Game Design panel by Frank

NYU Game Center

Claude Shannon’s “A Mathematical Theory of Communication.”

Alien Crash Site interviews with GPT-3

Frank’s Universal Paperclips

David Chapman

Marcel Duchamp

Caitlin’s favorite Jonathan Richman performance

Monday begins on Saturday by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

Hard to Be a God also by the Strugatsky Brothers

Stanislaw Lem

Philip K. Dick

J.G. Ballard

SCP Wiki

Antimemetics

qntm

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