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Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 23 March 2011 01:15:36AM 1 point [-]

I know someone who plays this game constantly. It's fun, but it doesn't seem like a rationality builder. Said obsessed person doesn't think it's taught ver anything really useful.

Comment author: atucker 23 March 2011 01:19:39AM 1 point [-]

Agreed. It's not particularly rational, but it just had the qualities described.

Comment author: kpreid 23 March 2011 09:12:42PM *  0 points [-]

I think it may have some small benefit in practice-of-thinking, if you get into mechanism building:

  • Solving problems in digital logic and 3-dimensional spatial layout.
  • Planning for sufficient space available for a mechanism, especially if you want it hidden in walls between rooms and no bigger than necessary.
  • Debugging.

But the majority of the time spent is probably no better than any other grinding.

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