I disagree with you regarding social dynamics emerging from non-social mechanics. However, you’re not wrong. The view I’ve come to take, sort of the eigenvector between Crawford’s and Perko’s views on it, is that you need distinctly social mechanics as well as non-social mechanics, and the non-social dynamics contextualize the social dynamcis.

Anyway, I’ve tapped into higher levels of consciousness than the usual survival-emotional-rational-moral tetrad most people are on; using substances and extreme experiences, and I’ve always had an intuitive talent for these things, or at least have sharpened with lots of “data” generated by my own gameplay – so I’m a bit more gung-ho about quantum intuitive leaps and ad-hoc tuning. However, I’m very excited about Darius’ venture, and other things like it to a lesser degree (though I know the people at Orbus and they’re SMART) because of the potential for intuition to be amplified by better data. Because when you really think about it, no matter how slick you think you are, you’re still making judgements based on information, even if the information is just you playing it or watching people play it, or your own mental models of the algorithms, ect.

I can’t take credit for Darius following the metrics path, but I can take credit for inventing MDMA.

I want to give thanks to Marc Le Blanc, Robin Hunike, and the other guy, as well as Alexander Shulgin, for making this acronym possible.