Reposted by Matthew Guzdial
I've been given the honor of giving the closing talk at this year's #Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club, joining a stellar speaker lineup. I'd share my talk's title, but it would go over bsky's character limit! Check out the full program: www.roguelike.club/event2026.html
![Research [25] shows that people [26] enjoy the feeling of winning games [3,5,19]. Enjoying things can lead to longer life expectancy [2], higher economic productivity [9,22,33-40,302] and improve mental health [9]. Yet many games still include losing players [67,4]. A recent study showed that less than half of the players in a Chess [1] match win on average [42]. We have developed an LLM-driven co-creative [66], user-led [11], mixed-initiative [80] assistant for Chess [2], through which players can redefine the rules of Chess [3] using generative AI prompting such that they are the winner of Chess [4]. A study (n=3) showed that 100\% of people felt better, healthier and more self-actualised after using our tool, showing that this may be the way forward for games and human culture more broadly in the future.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:h5kgtr755iczaqxomeh2pmh7/bafkreicu2p2o3is64z5k37n222hgahp67ssca6ro3nggbjtpwasig2zzbi)
![[nitter.app post excerpt from banteg]
>someone asks where the one-in-a-million number came from
> expert judgement
>which expert
>us
>how calibrated
> extremely thoughtfully
›reduce estimate to one in ten million to be conservative
›still beats curing cancer by 38 orders of magnitude
›epistemic robustness achieved](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wh6w2f2s53tgyaqws22bobam/bafkreibpxyhcaxi7ulblrfmt253xiyragzxuerdgtijcttsuo6arhelh2q)
