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Re:“CPUs are optimized for video games” by ori_b on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @07:22PM (#12265382)
How do you plan on preventing people from wanting things?
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Re:“CPUs are optimized for video games” by bobwaycott on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @08:20PM (#12265586)
Idealistically and for the fun of philosophically considering the matter, by creating a world composed of societies in which the inhabitants are free from want.
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Re:“CPUs are optimized for video games” by woodman on Thursday August 11, 2016 @02:20PM (#12270511)
> ... inhabitants are free from want.

Do you mean chemical lobotomies or a post scarcity economy? Because there are some wants that are impossible to fulfill, for example: there are a bunch of murderers in Syria motivated by the desire to fly a winged horse to a sky mansion where 72 infinity virgins await. I don't see that happening, even post scarcity.

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