Jim Kars was a rare voice in 1970s intellectual salons obsessed with game theory, arguing they missed something crucial: play. Unlike competition, play has no winners or losers. The speaker says we've built a culture that forgot this, and we need to bring play back.
Once in a generation, once in 100 years, you'll— somebody will come along who is able to define a truth. Jim Kars is one of those people. He, in the 1970s, there were all these salons and the concept of game theory was all the rage in the 1970s. It was like, it was like the AI of today. Like it's all anybody was talking about. And Kars was invited to some of these salons and all of these very, very, very smart people, he recognized That they were all talking about winning and losing. None of them were talking about playing. They started to realize that play— play, not winning, not losing, not competition— but play is the place where magic happens, innovation happens, cooperation happens, love happens, teamwork happens. Play, I think, is magical, and I think there should be more of it. I don't think there's enough. There's a lot of competition, but I think we need more play.
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