Asri-unix.1134
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Fri Apr  2 01:06:41 1982
Peace Games
From: Robert Elton Maas <REM at MIT-MC>
Re effect on national governments, you may have something there,
perhaps if more of us played peace instead of war games, the Generals
would play peace instead of war with each other. Maybe we should make
a fantasy space-exploration game, where everybody pretends to have
various expertise, and we all cooperate to pretend to develop space
industry, and we are only allowed to use powers within our area of
expertise, but we are allowed to freely "invent" plausable solutions
to technical problems in our area of expertise and then pretend they
are real and follow thru on what comes next (like I might pretend I've
discovered ice on the moon, in a polar valley, and then I'd proceed to
ask the pretend-engineers to design me a way of extracting it and
sending the hydrogen to where it's needed in the equatorial colony).