I speak of Dragon Warrior IV (from 1991).<\/p>\n
And this early RPG (role playing game) is in my humble, but accurate, opinion a power education in business, marketing, selling, copywriting, and even World-Building skills. Willis will be introduced to it when he\u2019s a little older. And I still play it myself when I want to learn a new skill or get a deeper understanding of a skill I already possess.<\/p>\n
Reason why is, it teaches, almost by \u201cosmosis\u201d via playing it, skills like:<\/p>\n
1. Thinking strategically v just tactically<\/p>\n
2. Patience<\/p>\n
3. Storytelling<\/p>\n
4. Playing blackjack (a game many wealthy people play, not a coincidence)<\/p>\n
5. World-Building<\/p>\n
6. The dangers of not vetting strangers you let in to your own business community<\/p>\n
7. The plight of customers\/clients who are abducted by other businesses<\/p>\n
8. The inherent flaws in farming off decision-making to so-called AI (see below)<\/p>\n
9. Buying & reselling to make money when starting out with nothing (one of the characters you play is a family man & merchant named Taloon, who literally starts with $0, and you have to buy and sell, and use patience, to get good deals to build up his experience)<\/p>\n
10. Disarming enemies\/trolls with humor<\/p>\n
11. The silliness & dangers of girl bossing<\/p>\n
12. Dealing with the frustrations of being randomly attacked when going after a goal<\/p>\n
13. The importance of building up the ‘scar tissue’ of experience to get things done correctly<\/p>\n
14. Why people irrationally obsessed with the theory of evolution can\u2019t be trusted<\/p>\n
15. How to work within a team so everyone’s strengths are accentuated, and their weaknesses put aside<\/p>\n
16. The importance of comedy in life<\/p>\n
17. The utter time suck of going after elusive bright shiny objects vs focusing on your Mission<\/p>\n
There are more.<\/p>\n
But I can say without any exaggeration that playing this game has amped up my business, marketing, copywriting, and even Options trading skills. And yes, it also gave me a very early-in-life distrust of so-called AI.<\/p>\n
How?<\/p>\n
Because the game forces its AI on you to play the characters at a certain point.<\/p>\n
In other words:<\/p>\n
Your party gets attacked, and it’s idiotic AI plays all the characters except the main one, and takes the decisions (and all the fun) away from you. But, what I have been doing for years is, I used the old Game Genie to hack the game to make my own decisions with those characters, to make it all go a lot better, more smoothy, more successfully.<\/p>\n
So-called AI is a great super calculator-like tool which it is by its own admission.<\/p>\n
But you got people literally letting it write their ads and tell them what to do.<\/p>\n
Or, even more amusingly, even try to start relationships with it.<\/p>\n
I just saw a social media post about this, where the guy was literally bragging about using AI to talk to his customers to grow relationships.<\/p>\n
I have also recently heard goo-roos are letting it write their customer testimonials too.<\/p>\n
All of which has me thinking on something James Cameron said recently.<\/p>\n
He has been running around saying he tried to \u201cwarn\u201d us about so-called AI in 1984 with Terminator.<\/p>\n
But I don\u2019t think he has much to worry about with that.<\/p>\n
The world is far more likely to look like Idiocracy than Terminator.<\/p>\n
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