Games

Go
- Go feels like magic to play and be good at. Much more than almost any other game, I get better at it by building up gut intuitions about what works and what doesn’t, and I find that I can’t articulate my knowledge to other people to make them better at the game. It’s like I’m building an LLM in my head with
Chess
Risk
- On the opposite end, Risk is great because it’s so stupid and random. It’s basically a way to spend six hours with your friends where you’re mostly talking about and focused on other stuff, and have something to fidget with (the game) and occassionally get fired up at each other about.

I only play video games on special occassions with friends when they’re basically like playing a board game together.

Games that were important to me growing up